This was announced on Wednesday afternoon by the Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.

The announcement of the election date followed the recent decision by the Constitutional Court to dismiss the IEC's application to postpone the elections to a date next year.

The Court instructed the IEC to announce a date for voter registration, which will now be on the 18th and 19th of this month and also ordered Minister Dlamini-Zuma to set a date for the elections between the 27th of October and the 1st of November.

The proclamation of the new date will be done officially after the voter registration weekend.

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