KZN ready to register voters for by-elections to replace dead candidates
PREPARATIONS for by-elections to replace the three councillor candidates murdered in KwaZulu-Natal shortly before August’s municipal elections, begin this weekend with voter registration and the verification of voters’ addresses.Bongani Skhosana, Khanyisile Ngobese-Sibisi and Thembi Mbongo — all of whom were ANC candidates — were shot and killed just before the municipal elections.The killings were believed to have been politically motivated. But the names of the three still appeared on the voters roll, resulting in their "election".According to a report by the KwaZulu-Natal provincial government, 20 people were killed in the province before the municipal elections, in what are believed to have been political killings: 12 were said to be ANC members, while three were linked to the National Freedom Party, another three to the IFP and two to the SACP.Head of the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) in KwaZulu-Natal, Mawethu Mosery, said on Thursday that by-elections in Skhosana’s ward 1 i...
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