# Concourt Ruling - ANC Wins

An episode of [The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1074292047), 15 Oct 2026, 6:16.

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Mandy Wiener speaks to EWN Reporter, Lindsay Dentlinger about the ANC winning the Concourt battle for its 181 Candidates to contest the November 4 elections. The Midday Report with Mandy Wiener is 702 and CapeTalk’s flagship news show, your hour of essential news radio. The show is podcasted every weekday, allowing you to catch up with a 60-minute weekday wrap of the day's main news. It's packed with fast-paced interviews with the day’s newsmakers, as well as those who can make sense of the news and explain what's happening in your world. All the interviews are podcasted for you to catch up and listen to. Thank you for listening to this podcast of The Midday Report Listen live on weekdays between 12:00 and 13:00 (SA Time) to The Midday Report broadcast on 702 https://buff.ly/gk3y0Kj and on CapeTalk https://buff.ly/NnFM3Nk For more from The Midday Report go to https://buff.ly/BTGmL9H and find all the catch-up podcasts here https://buff.ly/LcbDdFI Subscribe to the 702 and CapeTalk daily and weekly newsletters https://buff.ly/v5mfetc Follow us on social media: 702 on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TalkRadio702 702 on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@talkradio702 702 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/talkradio702/ 702 on X: https://x.com/Radio702 702 on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@radio702 CapeTalk on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@capetalk CapeTalk on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ CapeTalk on X: https://x.com/CapeTalk CapeTalk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CapeTalk567 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: So let's start in the Constitutional Court where Lindsay Dentlinger
[0:02] Speaker 1: has got the latest for us. Lindsay, good afternoon to you.
[0:06] Speaker 1: Thank you very much for your time. Take us through
[0:08] Speaker 1: that judgment today.
[0:11] Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Mandy. A very brief, more in order than
[0:14] Speaker 2: the court saying it will provide reasons for its judgment later,
[0:17] Speaker 2: but essentially overturning the ruling of the Electoral Court, which
[0:22] Speaker 2: did not find in the ANC's favor to add candidates
[0:26] Speaker 2: to its list. that it had not finally submitted before
[0:30] Speaker 2: the deadline. The Constitutional Court now allowing the ANC to
[0:33] Speaker 2: do so, saying that the IEC should do everything possible
[0:38] Speaker 2: to ensure that these 101 candidates are added to the
[0:42] Speaker 2: ballots for the six affected municipalities and that obviously the
[0:48] Speaker 2: party won't be able to add any new candidates, but
[0:53] Speaker 2: Certainly those candidates that it had uploaded and captured information
[0:57] Speaker 2: for before the deadline. But here's Judge Ramaka Matopa handing
[1:02] Speaker 2: down that brief order this morning, Mandy.
[1:04] Speaker 1: So, Lindsay, what does this now mean and what has
[1:07] Speaker 1: the reaction been from the ANC, the IEC, other parties
[1:10] Speaker 1: as well?
[1:12] Speaker 2: Well, for Kilian Belula speaking, after that judgment in the court,
[1:15] Speaker 2: it really came out guns blazing, said that the ANC
[1:19] Speaker 2: was not seeking to attack the IEC. It didn't believe
[1:23] Speaker 2: that it did so. It was really its application was
[1:26] Speaker 2: to challenge the process itself. and the rules that govern
[1:30] Speaker 2: the submission of candidates. But obviously, with a matter like this,
[1:34] Speaker 2: it became obviously very tense politically for Kilian Belula, once again,
[1:41] Speaker 2: indicating that He would seek to have the DA removed
[1:46] Speaker 2: from the government of national unity because they opposed this
[1:49] Speaker 2: matter both in the electoral court and in the constitutional
[1:52] Speaker 2: court and said that the ANC didn't need partners like
[1:56] Speaker 2: this who were working against it. And so that they
[2:00] Speaker 2: should review that relationship. The DA saying that it had
[2:04] Speaker 2: noted this threat from Fakile and Belula, but it wasn't
[2:07] Speaker 2: in the GNU just to go along with everything that
[2:11] Speaker 2: the ANC says and does. And that is focusing on
[2:14] Speaker 2: the elections. We know that the DA has said. look
[2:17] Speaker 2: to take the gap, especially in the Eastern Cape, where
[2:19] Speaker 2: the ANC has fallen short of or had fallen short
[2:22] Speaker 2: of submitting those candidates, which they will now be allowed
[2:25] Speaker 2: to include. But the DA ramped up its campaign in
[2:28] Speaker 2: the Eastern Cape by naming mayoral candidates, etc., for municipalities
[2:32] Speaker 2: like Ports and Johns and Inguza Hill, which are ANC
[2:37] Speaker 2: strongholds and thought that they could perhaps take the gap
[2:41] Speaker 2: here where the ANC was, uh, up until this morning, not, uh,
[2:45] Speaker 2: included on the ballots. Uh, and so, um, a political
[2:49] Speaker 2: fracker of possibly, uh, a brewing, um, the Africa, my
[2:53] Speaker 2: brewer movement, uh, Floyd Chivambo's outfit saying that he believed, um,
[2:58] Speaker 2: And the political parties who found themselves in a similar
[3:01] Speaker 2: position that the ANC did on August 28th should also
[3:05] Speaker 2: be accorded the same treatment. So we know that the
[3:08] Speaker 2: Electoral Court already ruled against the United Democratic... fund party.
[3:14] Speaker 2: I think they are named and they actually brought their
[3:17] Speaker 2: application on the deadline day, asking for more time to
[3:20] Speaker 2: submit their candidate list and the Electoral Commission dismissed them.
[3:24] Speaker 2: And so it remains to be seen, Mandy. We know
[3:26] Speaker 2: by the IEC's own admission, there were more than 40
[3:29] Speaker 2: parties in a similar position to the ANC when that
[3:33] Speaker 2: deadline struck. And what will happen now, whether they will
[3:36] Speaker 2: seek to approach the courts or go directly to the
[3:38] Speaker 2: IEC to try to get their candidates on the ballots
[3:42] Speaker 2: as well.
[3:43] Speaker 1: Lindsay, thank you very much. Lindsay Dentlinger, EWN parliamentary reporter
[3:46] Speaker 1: with the latest on that judgment. Let's take a listen
[3:48] Speaker 1: now to the ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula speaking in court.
[3:53] Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Comrade Malengi. Ladies and gentlemen of
[4:00] Speaker 3: the media, good morning to all of you. I'm standing
[4:09] Speaker 3: on the steps of the Constitution Hill. On this hill,
[4:16] Speaker 3: our people were once held in cells for demanding the
[4:21] Speaker 3: very thing that has been decided inside this building today.
[4:27] Speaker 3: One sentence on what the court has ordered, the Constitution
[4:33] Speaker 3: has spoken, and it has spoken for the people of
[4:38] Speaker 3: this country. Let me begin with thanks because this was
[4:44] Speaker 3: never the work of one office. I thank the president
[4:53] Speaker 3: of the ANC for his leadership through a hard month
[5:04] Speaker 3: and for insisting at every turn that this movement Take
[5:12] Speaker 3: the lawful road and no other. I thank the national
[5:20] Speaker 3: officials of the movement who carried this matter with patience.
[5:30] Speaker 3: Patience was not easy. Sure.
[5:35] Speaker 1: And then just after that, he said, I'm not feeling well.
[5:38] Speaker 1: And he collapsed on camera. Why do you think Fikile
[5:41] Speaker 1: Mbalula is so emotional about this? He obviously was under
[5:44] Speaker 1: enormous pressure. This could have been a massive indictment on
[5:47] Speaker 1: his leadership if the candidates hadn't been submitted. So I'm
[5:50] Speaker 1: sure he was very stressed. Maybe he's unwell, to give
[5:53] Speaker 1: him the benefits of the doubt. But you heard there,
[5:58] Speaker 1: breaking down Fikile Mbalula over this issue. What do you
[6:01] Speaker 1: make of that? What is at stake for the ANC here?
[6:05] Speaker 1: I think they would have been quite relieved. and quite
[6:08] Speaker 1: stressed about this decision. So much reaction to it as well.
[6:11] Speaker 1: We'll bring you some of that, the ANC winning in
[6:15] Speaker 1: the Constitutional Court today.

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