Constitutional Court saves ANC from election pain after it failed to press submit button

[ghaye]

ANC does not abide by the rules

Old habits die hard. They've had 30+ years of making the rules.

 

[Creag]

Old habits die hard. They've had 30+ years of making the rules.

And undoing their rules will likely take much longer

 

[Gudnews]

It doesn't really matter if you like the ANC or the current system, but its integrity has to be protected. So this is one instance where I actually support the ANC. Whether there were internal struggles or incompetence is irrelevant to the fact they managed to meet the deadline in what the law requires. The EC should have just accepted the submissions as now they have more work and a tighter deadline to meet.

Some regulations or laws need to be amended indeed.

 

[Segg]

Remember, just add your tax stuff, don't submit it.
It's officially now still counts as submitted.

Anything just loaded and not submitted now counts as submitted.

Honestly I wonder what precedent this sets for such situations

 

[Swa]

Honestly I wonder what precedent this sets for such situations

As said the laws need to be amended. I assume in the case of SARS the law allows SARS to require a final acknowledgement, but in the case of the IEC it doesn't.

I'm one of the first to usually criticise the ANC but in this case they do appear to be correct and if we insist they follow the law then so should other institutions. And as said this is probably good in that they won't be able to claim it was because of this when they do worse this time.