IEC reports sharp rise in candidates for November local elections
South Africa’s upcoming local government elections are shaping up to be one of the country’s most competitive municipal contests, with the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) recording a 43% increase in candidate nominations compared with the 2021 local elections. The IEC says it received 142,072 candidate nominations for the 2026 elections, compared with about 99,000 nominations in 2021. T
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