By Newsbreak Talk Producer and Presenter, Taresh Harreeparshad - Parliament has until the 10th of December this year to approve the Electoral Amendment Bill. This follows the 2020 Constitutional Court ruling that the act is unconstitutional and needed to be amended. This paved way for independents to contest national elections. But 22 civil society organisations say the amendments made to the act are merely cosmetic and do no level the playing field between political parties and independent candidates in the national assembly. We unpack what this means with Sheilan Clarke from My Vote Counts, one of the civil society organisation earlier mentioned - and Brandon Pillay, Member of the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs at Parliament.

<p>By Newsbreak Talk Producer and Presenter, Taresh Harreeparshad - Parliament has until the 10th of December this year to approve the Electoral Amendment Bill. This follows the 2020 Constitutional Court ruling that the act is unconstitutional and needed to be amended. This paved way for independents to contest national elections. But 22 civil society organisations say the amendments made to the act are merely cosmetic and do no level the playing field between political parties and independent candidates in the national assembly. We unpack what this means with Sheilan Clarke from My Vote Counts, one of the civil society organisation earlier mentioned - and Brandon Pillay, Member of the Portfolio Committee on Home Affairs at Parliament.</p>

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