IEC postpones all by-elections
4 April 2016
Pretoria - The Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) has postponed all by-elections in the country as it battles to provide a voters' roll that has people’s correct addresses.
It took the decision as it was still not clear whether the absence of voters’ addresses would render the roll, and results of any by-elections, invalid, spokesperson Kate Bapela said in a statement on Monday.
Among those by-elections affected by the postponement were those scheduled for Wednesday, 6 April.
The moved followed an Electoral Court ruling on 23 February postponing by-elections in Tlokwe that had been scheduled for the following day. This followed a Constitutional Court ruling last year that by-elections in the embattled municipality were not free and fair, and had to be re-run.