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<\/a>Apart from checking the paper work, the IEC also experienced a technical glitch on Monday, which resulted in the local office being unable to release preliminary ANC lists for publication.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, high ranking ANC politicians like Rehana Pilodia, is awaiting the release of the party’s lists with baited breath.<\/p>\n
Ms Pilodia, who serves on Mayor Mike Masina’s Mayoral Committee, confirmed on Monday that she had no idea where her name is on the list. “If you get it, please share it with me,” she urged the Observer.<\/p>\n
Recently, the ANC had to deal with a public backlash from Tokologo residents, accusing the party of manipulating the candidates nomination and election process.<\/p>\n
The unhappiness led to the petrol bombing of at least two Sprinter buses in Mhluzi.<\/p>\n
On Monday Mr Buks Olivier spoke openly for the first time about the accusations leading to his candidacy being stymied.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been accused of using the K-word and therefor the DA’s Cape Town minders, decided it’d be best to remove me as candidate for Kanonkop,” Mr Olivier told the Middelburg Observer on Monday.<\/p>\n
“In my 30 years working for the municipality, I’ve never been accused of such garbage, I pride myself on honesty and Christian values, and can categorically say that I never uttered the word,” Mr Olivier said with disappointment.<\/p>\n
“I asked for proof, but there is none,” he says, adding that further excuses by the DA, like the party being told that it would lose votes when running with Olivier, “is also nonsense”.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been a resident of Kanonkop for 20 years, enough said,” Mr Olivier concluded.<\/p>\n
According to the DA, not a single candidate for Kanonkop could appease the party, and therefor outsider De Klerk was nominated.<\/p>\n
Though she does not live in Kanonkop, her business acumen as guest house and car wash owner, led to her nomination.<\/p>\n