IEC names Janet Love as replacement for Terry Tselane
Janet Love is a former anti-apartheid activist who served on the transitional executive committee that helped prepare for 1994 election
President Cyril Ramaphosa has designated Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) sitting commissioner Janet Love to replace Terry Tselane as second in charge at commission. Tselane as well as former commissioner Ben Finca left the IEC after two decades last week. Love, a former anti-apartheid activist who served on the transitional executive committee that helped prepare for the first democratic election in 1994, was appointed to the post of commissioner shortly before the 2016 local government election. She was an ANC MP between 1994 and 1999 and formed part of the body responsible for creating the country’s constitution. IEC chair Glen Mashinini announced on Wednesday that Ramaphosa had made three commissioner appointments to the IEC and one designation. Love was designated to replace Tselane and Mosotho Moepya, judge Dhayanithie Pillay and Dr Nomsa Praisy Masuku were appointed as new commissioners. Moving to allay fears of a lack of experience at the helm of the electoral body, Mashinin...
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