Don’t let dirty politics and high-stakes hysteria undermine the IEC

It is time to stand with the electoral commission, not against it

17 March 2024 - 00:00 By LAWSON NAIDOO and Dan Mafora

With a little over 10 weeks to election day, politicking inevitably gets dirtier and more desperate. At a time when political parties and other stakeholders in the electoral process should be working collaboratively with the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), some have recklessly chosen to attack and undermine it...

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