IEC announces new date for candidate nominations

The Independent Election Commission (IEC) said that a new deadline for candidate nominations would be set.

This will be after the voter registration weekend of 18 and 19 September.

The IEC was briefing the nation on Monday after the Constitutional Court last week ruled that the polls must go-ahead before 1 November despite an independent inquiry finding that free and fair elections would be unlikely amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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