POLITICS: SACP and some other small parties to be deregistered after missing 31 January deadline
By Thobile Jiwulane
The South African Communist Party is among 192 political parties, mostly unknown, that are to be deregistered by the Electoral Commission of South Africa after they failed to confirm their existence to the Commission by the 31 January deadline.
Now the parties must make representations to the IEC and state why they did not meet the deadline and why their registration should not be cancelled. They must do so by the 24 March 2025 otherwise their names would be removed from the IEC register of political parties and the SACP features prominently on the list. The SACP, an ally of the ANC, has not been contesting elections since 1994 except when it contested a by-election in Metsimaholo in the Free State on 29 November 2017 to test the electoral waters. The party me...