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THE Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)’s Director of Elections, Mpaiphele Maqutu, says the government’s attempts to move the National Security Service (NSS) into the same building the electoral body occupies is a vainglorious infringement of its autonomy.<\/p>\n
The IEC moved into a new building – christened IEC House – in March 2024 after vacating Prime Minister Sam Matekane’s MGC Park after an outcry that its continued renting of the PM’s premises after he had ventured into full time politics…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> THE Independent Electoral Commission (IEC)’s Director of Elections, Mpaiphele Maqutu, says the government’s attempts to move the National Security Service (NSS) into the same building the electoral body occupies is a vainglorious infringement of its autonomy. The IEC moved into a new building – christened IEC House – in March 2024 after vacating Prime Minister […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":175873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,16929,4357,48949,4717,1407,48950,257,254,8718],"class_list":["post-175872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-autonomy","tag-govt","tag-iecs","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-maqutu","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatening"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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