Lists of candidates nominated by political parties to contest the elections nationally and provincially are now open for public scrutiny. Members of the public may lodge objections to any candidate nominated by a political party, the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) said. The lists are available on the IEC’s website. Objections have to be lodged by 5pm on April 2. There are 48 political parties contesting the May 8 election. This includes some newcomers such as Patricia de Lille’s Good Party; the National Union of Metalworkers of SA’s Socialist Revolutionary Workers Party; former SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s African Content Movement (ACM); the controversial Black First Land First (BLF); the African Transformation Movement (ATM), who has Mzwanele Manyi as its policy chief; and the Capitalist Party of SA (ZACP). The ANC has received criticism for the lists it submitted to the IEC in February. The list included controversial politicians and those who have been implicated in state captu...
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