By Staff Reporter
The National Operations Centre for South Africa’s 4 November local government elections was launched on Wednesday.
The Electoral Commission (IEC) said last month that an unprecedented 136,790 candidates met the statutory requirements to contest the elections.
Of these candidates, 98,219 are nominated by parties to represent wards and 38,571 to represent parties in the Proportional Representation (PR) election.
A total of 621 candidates are independents nominated to represent wards.
