On MONDAY, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill (B1-2022) to become Act 1 of 2023.
The law will allow independent candidates to participate in the national and provincial elections for the first time.
The signing marked the culmination of a long process that began in 2020.
On June 11, 2020, having listened to both sides of the argument, the Constitutional Court declared the Electoral Act (No. 73 of 1998) unconstitutional to
