PICTURE: SOWETAN Tlokwe, a small, ordinary town with a plain face-brick church and high steeple at its centre, now has a precedent-setting ring to it. It was here that missing addresses on the voters’ roll were successfully challenged.In 2015, the Constitutional Court found that a series of by-elections held in Tlokwe in 2013 were not free and fair and ordered that they be held again.The order came after six independent candidates complained.Rescheduled by-elections were bogged down by litigation and the municipality will hold its elections with the rest of SA in August.For the people of Tlokwe, the municipal election will take place against the backdrop of back-stabbing, suspicions around the Electoral Commission of SA and the switching of party allegiances by several political leaders.In 2013, an ANC faction in the town council stabbed its own mayor, Maphetle Maphetle, in the back by siding with the DA in a vote of no confidence against him. The 14 ANC councillors who voted agains...
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