The ANC is fielding an all-male line-up of candidates to fill the vacant council seats in Nquthu local municipality where a series of by-elections gets underway on Wednesday. This is seen as slap in the face of the ANC Women’s League, which has campaigned for 50-50 male and female representation across the party’s structures. The Nquthu by-elections come after the dissolution of a hung Nquthu council after it failed to elect officials in the August 2016 local government elections. The municipality has 33 seats‚ made up of 17 ward council seats and 16 proportional representation (PR) seats. The by-election is one of the most fiercely contested polls in the country. There are 81,085 registered voters and a total of 359 candidates, of which 238 are ward candidates and 121 PR candidates. Fourteen political parties are contesting the by-elections. The ANC defended its choice of candidates, saying it was a result of an extensive democratic process. Nomagugu Simelane-Zulu, ANC’s Nquthu by-...
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