‘The IEC is the ANC in reverse’: Malema says ground forces must protect EFF votes

This comes after the ANC appealed to the Electoral Commission to give the party a chance to complete submitting their list of councillor candidates despite the deadline for this process having passed.“We ask only that the Commission recognise and process what its own system received and stored before the deadline, rather than treat it as never having been submitted because of technical failures prevented the final confirmation,” said ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu in a statement this week.“The commission has never entertained any possibility to open the system for any one party, and as our statement indicated yesterday, the commission does not have an intention even at this point to open the system,” he said.