EFFSC to challenge presidential elections at High Court: Is there a fourth presidential candidate?
2020-10-31
SUSANNA ANBU, KAYLA THOMAS and LEAH REES On 25 October, PDBY received an anonymous tip that the Constitutional Tribunal (Student Court of UP) was in the process of drafting a binding order to reinstate an applicant’s name on the presidential ballot list for the Student Representative Council (SRC) elections. The Tribunal, in a 24 October hearing, declared that the Panel of appointed judges found that the applicant, Sipiwe Tato Ntiyantiya, “satisfies the eligibility requirements” to run in “the UP 2020 SRC Elections as a candidate for the Office of the SRC President”. The Tribunal drafted a provisional order that the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) “restoreRead More →