{"id":49513,"date":"2026-10-30T10:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49513"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:46:33","slug":"iec-scrambles-to-finalise-ballot-papers-for-elections","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/iec-scrambles-to-finalise-ballot-papers-for-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC scrambles to finalise ballot papers for elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">With just days to go before November 4 Local Government Elections, South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Electoral Commission (IEC) says preparations are largely complete despite a late ballot printing scramble triggered by the Constitutional Court ruling reinstating 181 African National Congress candidates.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The decision was extended to 32 other parties in similar circumstances, pushing the affected ballot requirement to about 33 million, with printing now being finalised.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">IEC Chairperson Mosotho Moepya says the commission remains on track for election day, as special voting gets under way on Monday and Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21186,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-49513","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Local Government Elections","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49515,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49513\/revisions\/49515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}