by Rita Felgate (Adv.)
Jacob Zuma’s public media admission yesterday, that some ANC local government candidate lists were tampered with, raises the interesting question of whether the ANC candidate lists can now be considered to amount to lists within the ambit of the relevant legislation or not?
In the usual run of things, the IEC has to decide whether such lists were submitted by a party in the proper form, timeously, in a procedurally correct way.
However whether the lists were submitted by the proper person in the proper form, timeously and in the procedurally proper way is no longer the question to ask.
The question to ask is, what is the duty of the IEC, if any, now that there has been such a public statement but no less personage than Jacob Zuma that what the IEC took prima facie to be ANC candidates lists are in fact lists that have been tampered with?
I’ve asked the IEC the question, and await a reply.