South African Christian News: Telling the God Stories of Africa
It is time to lay the foundation for South Africa’s second democratic transition in which power is handed back to the people, said One South Africa (OSA) movement leader Mmusi Maimane this week in a virtual press conference where he announced a campaign to get behind independent candidates in the […]
I recently read a newspaper article suggesting that South Africa is getting close to becoming a failed state. This might sound alarmist to some people, but I can assure you that the signs are there. A failed state is one whose political or economic system has become so weak that […]
Former DA leader Mmusi Maimane will be the guest speaker at a stakeholder consultation convened by Vuka Africa Foundation in Randburg, Johannesburg on Tuesday February 18. The consultation is a sequel to a widely-representative electoral reform workshop at the University of Witwatersrand on October 17 last year where a decision […]
By Teresa Conradie Yesterday the Constitutional Court heard application by the New Nation Movement (NNM), Princess Chantal Revell of the First Nation people and two other applicants requesting the court to declare the Electoral Act unconstitutional for as far as it does not allow eligible South African citizens to stand […]
By Adv Nadene Badenhorst Nine judges of the Constitutional Court today heard an urgent application by the New Nation Movement (NNM) to allow eligible South Africans to stand for election to the National Assembly and Provincial Legislatures independently of political parties. The Court ruled that the matter was not urgent […]
Just six days before South Africans are due to go to the polls on May 8, the Constitutional Court will hear an application for leave to appeal in the matter of the right of independent candidates to contest elections. The Chief Justice has directed that the application be set down […]
Compiled and edited from reports in News 24 Judgment was reserved until April 17 yesterday in an application dealing with the rights of independent candidates which the Western Cape High Court heard was of such urgency and importance that it could end up postponing the elections in May. Advocate Alan […]
Originally published in News 24 The application to hear the rights of individuals to stand for national and provincial elections independently was delayed in the Western Cape High Court when Judge Siraj Desai insisted that political parties represented in the National Assembly be joined in the application. The application came […]
South African voters will be able to vote for candidates of their choice in the 2019 elections, and keep their representatives accountable, if a bill calling for the right for independent candidates to stand for public office is passed. An explanatory summary of the draft Electoral Laws Amendment Bill 2019 […]