ANC Candidates Restored After Party Failed to Press ‘Submit’

For South Africa. I think the point that you made earlier in our conversation is a very important one. And I'd just like to go back to the fact that a week after this ruling, the Constitutional Court still has not given us reasons for it. This is a little bit speculative until we know the reasons black and white on paper. But look, this case is incredibly important because it directly

talks to South Africans' political rights as enshrined under Section 19 of the Bill of Rights and also in our Constitution's founding provisions that set out a multi-party democracy, universal suffrage and regular elections. So it's the right of every South African to participate in political activity in a multi-party electoral

And, you know, if candidates of one political party are just not represented, that has an impact, as it did in 2006 when the ACDP went to court, because it had initially been barred because of a deposit. And the Constitutional Court also overturned that. I actually just want to also go back to 2022 because that Section 19 right of political.

Political activity also came under scrutiny then. And if you go back to the New Nations movement case, the Constitutional Court then found that, I'm paraphrasing, basically political activity and the right of South Africans to pursue political activity doesn't have to be channeled through a political party. And because of that Constitutional Court judgment, we now have independent.

Standing in national and provincial elections. I kind of think, in the absence of the Constitutional Court's own reasons, I think that these were really, really important considerations for the judges to take. That's not to say that it didn't open a Pandora box, and it has, because I think in the public discourse, I mean, you know, people were saying,

Hey, but if I'm a student and I don't hit the final submit button on my paper, have I really submitted my paper? It's actually more, even more important, relatively speaking, in public governance, because think about it. If I were to submit my tax e-filing and say, I've done it, I just forgot to hit the final submit button. I mean, SARS is going to come to me and I will have to pay huge.