ANC CONFIRMS ITS CANDIDATES AND ITS READINESS FOR THE 2026 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS
ANC CONFIRMS ITS CANDIDATES AND ITS READINESS FOR THE 2026 LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS
The African National Congress is contesting the 2026 Local Government Elections across the length and breadth of our country. Our candidates were nominated by our branches and communities, vetted, and lodged with the Independent Electoral Commission, and we intend to be on the ballot in every ward and every municipality.
The movement did not miss the Commission’s deadline. All nine provinces completed the work allocated to them. Every Provincial Secretary, working with the provincial list committees and under the direction of the ANC Electoral Committee, uploaded the candidates nominated by our branches and regions onto the Commission’s Online Candidate Nomination System.
That upload was one hundred per cent complete before 17h00 on 28 August. This was a collective undertaking of the whole movement, from the branch to the National Executive Committee, and it was carried out. What did not close was the system’s final electronic confirmation step, on a portion of those lists. The difficulty emerged in the closing hours of the window and was reported to the Commission as it arose. The records of the affected candidates were already captured and held on the OCNS before 17h00.
We are addressing these system failures with the Commission through the proper channels. This was not confined to one party or one municipality. The Commission has itself reported that 2 274 candidates, across forty-five political parties, were captured on its system but not recorded as finally submitted. That is the measure of the matter.
The ANC is not asking the Commission to condone a late nomination. We seek to add no name that was not on the OCNS by 17h00, and no amendment or reordering of any list.
We ask only that the Commission recognise and process what its own system received and stored before the deadline, rather than treat it as never having been submitted because of technical failures prevented the final confirmation.
The Chairperson of the ANC Electoral Committee, Cde Kgalema Motlanthe, has declared the candidate nomination and submission process a resounding success, and has expressed his confidence that a solution will be found — one that expands, and does not constrain, the participation of our people in this democracy.
To our members, our supporters and to the voters of South Africa: be assured. The ANC is ready and our candidates are ready. We retain our confidence in the Electoral Commission and in its constitutional duty to deliver free, fair and credible elections, and we shall keep our people informed as this engagement proceeds.
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