Local government elections set for 1 November
The local government elections will be held on the 1st of November.
Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma announced the new date on Wednesday afternoon.
On Friday, the Constitutional Court dismissed the Independent Electoral Commission's application to move the polls to next year due to the coronavirus pandemic.
It ordered that the elections be held between the 27th of October and the 1st of November.
Voting was originally set to take place on the 27th of October.
Dlamini-Zuma says they will proclaim the new date after the voter registration weekend being held next weekend.
"We could have chosen the original proclaimed date of the 27th of October, but we have chosen the most outer date as the IEC indicated that it will need as much time as possible to prepare for the elections."
