In the first episode of Daily Maverick’s Beyond the Lead, Tamsin Metelerkamp and Lerato Mutsila speak to parliamentary journalist Marianne Merten about the Constitutional Court’s 15 October ruling in the ANC’s dispute with the IEC. The ruling returns 181 ANC candidates in six municipalities to the ballot for the 4 November local government elections, after the party did not complete the final submission step before the deadline. Candidates from 32 other parties are also included. The discussion covers the IEC’s reprinting of ballot papers, Fikile Mbalula’s remarks on the GNU, and the precedent the case may set while the court’s reasons remain unpublished. Listen now and join the conversation in the comments section below!
This episode of Power Chat is brought to you by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom, an organisation dedicated to strengthening democracy and human rights across the world, and creating new momentum for liberalism.
Hosted by: Lerato Mutsila and Tamsin Metelerkamp
Guest: Marianne Merten
Edited by: Joel Seboa
Produced by: Emilie Gambade & Joel Seboa
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00:00 – The ANC’s Candidate Crisis
01:45 – The ‘Submit Button’ Argument
02:45 – ConCourt Reasons Still Pending
04:00 – The Six Affected Municipalities
04:45 – Voter Sentiment in Sundays River Valley
05:50 – Marianne Merten Joins
06:45 – The 2006 ACDP Precedent
07:45 – A Broader ANC Malaise
08:50 – Will the Ruling Shift ANC Prospects?
12:20 – Reprinting 33 Million Ballots
15:15 – Mbalula, the DA and the GNU
19:00 – Section 19 and Political Rights
22:30 – The Submit Button’s Wider Implications
24:50 – Closing
