Breaking News - Expats allowed to vote!

Internationals have until the 27th March to indicate that they intend to vote according to News 24
 
JungleBoy said:
The unregistered people wouldn't be able to vote even if they were in the country, cause voter registration closed in Feb.

Why is this a surprise, I understood that after the proclamation of the election date, voter registration cannot be allowed. Unless the election was postponed there was never a chance for them to register.
Should they have tried to stop the president from making the proclamation before this matter was decided?
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Why would they have registered if they were told by the ICC that they cannot vote? IMO the election should be postponed and our people afforded the opportunity to register.
 
To be honest I didn't have much confidence that we'd be given the vote.

It's all fcked.
 
marine1 said:
ANC must be ***king in their pants :D
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Hardly.

Next the vote must be taken away from their most erstwhile supporters. The murderers and rapists sitting behind bars.
 
Alan said:
Hardly.

Next the vote must be taken away from their most erstwhile supporters. The murderers and rapists sitting behind bars.
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Couldn't agree more, next the FF must take this to court, these animals in our society should not have the benefit of voting.
Maybe its time to start voting FF+ :D
 
marine1 said:
Couldn't agree more, next the FF must take this to court, these animals in our society should not have the benefit of voting.
Maybe its time to start voting FF+ :D
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Dunno how successful they'll be. Our great liberal constitution was written with the rights of criminals above all else in mind :o
 
Abe said:
... This is a joke. Some mickey mouse judge in the ANC's pocket throws out the case preventing the date of the election being finalised (or whatever it's called) because he did not like the way the case was presented, without even looking at the facts.
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Hokaai! Get educated before you malign the judiciary.
The judge acted properly and correctly. And this is a good thing for SA, even if you don't like the effect in this particular case.

One cannot argue the merits in an urgent interdict (not in SA, and not anywhere in the world with a real legal system, and for good reason: consideration of the merits is reserved for the real case itself, where defendants have the right to defend themselves after thorough preparation). To obtain an urgent interdict (which is a really an interim emergency court order), you must show real and immediate prejudice to the client should the interdict not be granted. I don't know the facts in this case, but perhaps the FF teacher/client was already registered as a voter and therefore his lawyers could ovbiously not prove that he would suffer harm if the roll was closed - he was already on it. Urgent interdicts are very narrow and very specific to each case. I may well be that the FF action to interdict the president was a political stunt without any legal foundation, at least in the case of this particular client.

If you don't like rash, uninformed, and precipitous actions by others, start by curbing your own rash impugnation of the learned judge.
 
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ANC just said on E News that this ruling is a victory for democracy. Bwahahahahah :D:D
What the hell do they know about democracy?
They are the ones who were behind this in the first place, idiots.
 
Only the registered people can vote, I think this is wrong if you are a South African then they should allow you to vote whether you in the country or not
 
Arthur said:
Hokaai! Get educated before you malign the judiciary.
The judge acted properly and correctly. And this is a good thing for SA, even if you don't like the effect in this particular case.

One cannot argue the merits in an urgent interdict (not in SA, and not anywhere in the world with a real legal system, and for good reason: consideration of the merits is reserved for the real case itself, where defendants have the right to defend themselves after thorough preparation). To obtain an urgent interdict (which is a really an interim emergency court order), you must show real and immediate prejudice to the client should the interdict not be granted. I don't know the facts in this case, but perhaps the FF teacher/client was already registered as a voter and therefore his lawyers could ovbiously not prove that he would suffer harm if the roll was closed - he was already on it. Urgent interdicts are very narrow and very specific to each case. I may well be that the FF action to interdict the president was a political stunt without any legal foundation, at least in the case of this particular client.

If you don't like rash, uninformed, and precipitous actions by others, start by curbing your own rash impugnation of the learned judge.
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+1K
level headed argument indeed. no knee-jerking there
 
Arthur said:
Hokaai! Get educated before you malign the judiciary.
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But it's so much fun :p

I don't know the facts in this case,
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You can make your own mind up.

http://www.homecomingrevolution.co.za/hcrblog/?p=1174

The application brought by the Freedom Front Plus, on behalf of Richter, would not be heard by Judge Aubrey Ledwaba as he deemed it in “contemptuous disregard” of court procedures.

“It’s struck from the roll and each party is to pay its own costs,” he said.

Ledwaba, who said he had not looked at the merits or demerits of the case, said he took issue with the applicant’s submission that the matter was urgent.

He said “unreasonably short time” had been afforded to Motlanthe, the Independent Electoral Commission and the minister of home affairs to submit affidavits.

“In my view it constitutes an abuse and disregard for the practice [of the court].”

If you don't like rash, uninformed, and precipitous actions by others, start by curbing your own rash impugnation of the learned judge.
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IMO, the case did merit an urgent interdict, and in my opinion, the judge acted incorrectly. It not a rash attack in any way. Just because someone is a judge, that does not make them infallable (as one can see from Judge Nkola Motata). Hell, I still remember the news reports about a magistrate tossing a case out because he/she wanted to go home. The way I read it, the judge threw it out because he did not like the time lines. This was a very important case and should not have been discarded the way it was.
 
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