Faced with the conundrum of conducting free, fair and safe elections amid Covid-19, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) has decided to approach the electoral court to postpone the by-elections scheduled to take place across eight municipal wards on Wednesday.

Wednesday’s elections were supposed to be the final by-elections to be conducted by the commission ahead of the local government elections scheduled for October 27...

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