CHIEF Justice Raymond Zondo will receive the list of members of the National Assembly and provincial legislatures on Thursday.
This comes just days after the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC) on Sunday officially announced election results from last week’s poll.
“It is an established practice in South Africa that after the announcement by the IEC of the results of the national and provincial elections, the IEC hands over the lists of members of Parliament and provincial legislatures to the Chief Justice who then hands them over to the secretary to Parliament,” said the office of the Chief Justice in a statement.
The handover of the lists to the secretary of Parliament is “in preparation for the first sitting of the National Assembly”.
“The Chief Justice also transmits the lists of designated members of the provincial legislatures to the designated judges presidents who will preside over the first sittings of the provincial legislatures.”
The IEC is expected to handover the lists to Zondo in the Constitutional Court at 2pm on Thursday.
Meanwhile, South Africa was on tenterhooks on Monday for the ANC to signal who it will choose as a partner to govern the nation after it lost its majority in last week’s election for the first time in 30 years of democracy.
The ANC had comfortably won every previous election since the end of apartheid in 1994, but this time voters weary of joblessness, inequality and rolling power blackouts gave it only 40.2% of the vote, down from 57.5% five years ago.
