South Africa: electoral ruling revives 2016 exclusion
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Scrolla
Sindi Mashinini-Maphumulo, a former leader of South Africa’s National Freedom Party, says the decision in favour of 181 African National Congress candidates has revived her party’s exclusion from the 2016 elections. On 15 October, the Constitutional Court ordered the electoral commission to put the candidates on ballots in six municipalities, Scrolla reports.
The decision by the South African Constitutional Court in favour of 181 ANC candidates has revived memories of the National Freedom Party’s (NFP) exclusion from the 2016 elections, according to Sindi Mashinini-Maphumulo, a member of the party. On 15 October, the Court overturned a decision by the Electoral Court and ordered the Electoral Commission to include the ANC candidates on the ballots in six municipalities.
Mashinini-Maphumulo believes that the different treatment given to the NFP in 2016 and to the ANC this year has reopened a political wound. The Electoral Court had rejected the NFP’s candidacy in the elections at the time, while the ANC candidates were reinstated after their exclusion in September. South Africa’s municipal elections are scheduled for 4 November.
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