D-Day For Political Parties To Submit Candidates’ Lists Amid Chaos, Uncertainty Over 2021 Local Government Elections

POLITICAL tensions were high at the weekend as political parties finalised their lists of candidates for Local Government Elections ahead of the Independent Electoral Commission’s Monday deadline for submission of candidate names.

Political parties and independent candidates intending to contest the Local Government Elections scheduled for 27 October 2021 have until the end of business on Monday to submit their nominations and prescribed election deposits to the IEC.

Already, the compilation of ANC lists has led to a spate of political assassinations in certain provinces, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng, with an ANC member shot dead in Tshwane last Wednesday after an argument broke out over how the candidate list should be compiled at a ward in Nellmapius, Pretoria.

On Sunday, disgruntled ANC members from the Moretele region in the North West also picketed outside Luthuli House in Johannesburg, Gauteng.

They said they were unhappy about the candidate lists presented