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Daily Podcast – June 15, 2016

15th June 2016

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June,15 2016.
For Creamer Media in Johannesburg, I’m Thabi Madiba.

Making headlines:
ConCourt judgment makes IEC 'suspect'  says FF Plus
Kenyan court orders politicians to be held over "hate speech"
And,  Ramaphosa says alliance not what it should be

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The Constitutional Court ruling that the August 3 elections can go ahead, even though there are problems with the voters' roll, means that the Electoral Commission of South Africa is now suspect, the Freedom Front Plus said on Tuesday.

FF Plus leader Pieter Groenewald said in a statement that the judgment made it clear that the IEC had not fulfilled its legal obligations with regards to the voters' roll and the judgment of the Constitutional Court was a compromise in the interest of democracy to allow the elections to go ahead on 3 August.

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The court ruled on Tuesday that the IEC's failure to record all available voters' addresses on the national common voters' roll was inconsistent with the Constitution, and therefore invalid.

However, handing down judgment, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng said the judges had decided that it would give the IEC 18 months to rectify the situation.

In the meantime, the local government elections set for August 3 could go ahead.

 

A Kenyan court ordered police to detain eight pro-government and opposition politicians for investigation over alleged "hate speech", flagging growing tensions more than a year before elections and after weeks of deadly protests.

After a disputed election in December 2007, incitement by rival camps was blamed for stoking bloodletting between major ethnic groups that left 1 200 dead and hundred of thousands displaced.

The 2010 constitution that sought to reshape institutions and national politics guarantees free expression but expressly outlaws ethnic incitement or "hate speech".

Police took the eight to court after they were alerted to remarks by four pro-government politicians and four from the opposition. The police said the remarks were "said to be laced with ethnic hatred, vilification and border on incitement."

 


The structures of the tripartite alliance are not what they should be, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa said in Cape Town on Thursday.

Except for during elections and in the build up to conferences, the alliance did not have a coherent and consistent programme of action, said Ramaphosa in a speech prepared for delivery at the Elijah Barayi memorial lecture in Salt River.

Barayi was the first president of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) launched after years of negotiations in Durban on November 30, 1985.

Cosatu's alliance with the ANC has been sorely tested over the past years because of policy differences and growing criticism of President Jacob Zuma, a point Ramaphosa did not shy away from.

He called on all structures of the alliance - "every ANC branch, every Cosatu shop steward council" to restore the alliance.

 

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