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Electoral Commission (IEC) Chairperson Mosotho Moepya interviewed for three position of IEC Commissioners on July 22, 2025.
Electoral Commission (IEC) Chairperson Mosotho Moepya has conceded that Voter Management Devices (VDMs) failed the commission during the May 29 elections last year, resulting in long queues in some places.
He faced a robust grilling by a panel led by Chief Justice Mandisa Maya, which is interviewing candidates to fill three positions for IEC Commissioners.
In a tense exchange, Maya took issue with what she understood as Moepya’s characterisation of the long queues as being merely a perception of the public and not the reality on the ground.
Maya says, “I suppose in the eyes of the public that rankled, it still rankled with me because it tells me that in the eyes of the commission, it didn’t work. Why are these people complaining about the one thing that did not go right and are not commending us for the fourth and that actually worked well?”
Moepya responded, “No, no Judge and I must say, Chief Justice, all it takes is just to look on Google or anything on the statements we have issued, we’ve never defended that, we’ve acknowledged publicly. Last week, we were in the Portfolio Committee, I even raised the thing and said to South Africans, you have spoken, we have heard you, we must go and deal with it.”
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