{"id":126608,"date":"2016-07-05T09:21:56","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T07:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126608\/elections-2016-what-does-the-iec-do\/"},"modified":"2016-07-06T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T11:00:31","slug":"elections-2016-what-does-the-iec-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2016\/07\/05\/elections-2016-what-does-the-iec-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Elections 2016: What does the IEC do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"clearfix\">\n<h3 class=\"grid_8 alpha\">What is the Electoral Commission of South Africa\u00a0(IEC)?<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ctl00_ctl00_uxContentBody_uxContentBody_cmsContentBlock\">\n<p>The IEC is a permanent body created by the Constitution to manage free and fair elections at all levels of government. Although publicly funded and accountable to parliament, the IEC is independent of the government.<\/p>\n<h3>What does it do?<\/h3>\n<h3>Obligations<\/h3>\n<p>In terms of Section 190 of the <a href=\"\/Users\/User\/Downloads\/Constitution%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20South%20Africa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996<\/a>\u00a0(PDF &#8211; 1.65 MB), it must:<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>manage elections\u00a0of national, provincial and municipal legislative bodies;<\/li>\n<li>ensure that those elections are free and fair;<\/li>\n<li>declare the results of those elections; and<\/li>\n<li>compile and maintain a voters&#8217; roll.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Duties<\/h3>\n<p>Section 5 of the <a href=\"\/Users\/User\/Downloads\/Electoral%20Commission%20Act%2051%20of%201996.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Electoral Commission Act, 1996<\/a>\u00a0(PDF &#8211; 183 KB) requires that the IEC<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>compiles and maintains a register of parties;<\/li>\n<li>undertakes and promotes research<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>into electoral matters;<\/li>\n<li>develops and promotes the development of electoral expertise and technology<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>in all spheres of government;<\/li>\n<li>continuously reviews electoral laws and proposed electoral laws, and makes recommendations;<\/li>\n<li>promotes\u00a0voter education;<\/li>\n<li>declares the results of elections for national, provincial and municipal legislative bodies within seven days; and<\/li>\n<li>appoints appropriate public administrations in any sphere of government to conduct elections when necessary.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='8a489f3adb47d76594c2d58ce4cda3b4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are the obligations and duties of the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) in a nutshell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":126609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[11611,11612,11613,2737,11614,11615,11616],"class_list":["post-126608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-duties-of-the-iec","tag-elections-2016","tag-electoral-commission-of-sa","tag-iec","tag-obligations-of-the-iec","tag-what-does-the-iec-do","tag-what-is-iec"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["Duties of the IEC","Elections 2016","Electoral Commission of SA","iec","Obligations of the IEC","What does the IEC do?","What is IEC"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}