Election officials count ballots after the closing of the local government elections, at a farm in Alewynspoort, outside Johannesburg, November 2021Election officials count ballots after the closing of the local government elections, at a farm in Alewynspoort, outside Johannesburg, November 2021
This is the view of the Executive Secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution Lawson Naidoo. Naidoo says a constituency-based system, similar to that used for local government, is required to meaningfully accommodate independent candidates. The major issue raised by these groups around the Parliamentary process relates to the omission of the majority of recommendations made to the Home Affairs Portfolio Committee through the Ministerial Advisory Committee .The civil society group My Vote Counts says the Bill in its current form will not be able to comply with constitutional obligations.