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IEC chair Pansy Tlakula resigns
Pansy Tlakula has handed in her resignation to President Jacob Zuma as chair of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC), after over a year of fighting to clear her name over a botched leasing deal.
“The process of trying to clear my name has been long drawn out and for the sake of the institution I have decided to abandon this process and resign to enable the Commission to focus on the preparations for the 2016 local government elections,” Tlakula said in a statement on Tuesday evening.
“I wish to reiterate that I have not been involved in any corruption or benefitted personally or financially from the Riverside Office Park transaction.”
In a long-ranging interview with the Mail & Guardian on Tuesday morning, Tlakula said she handed in her resignation on Monday.
- Look out for an exclusive interview with Tlakula about her resignation in the Mail & Guardian newspaper this Friday.
She later released a statement about her resignation, before embarking on a trip to Gambia in her capacity as the African Union’s Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and Access to Information in Africa.
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Pansy, say it ain’t so
Ever calm and thoughtful, Pansy Tlakula was a palate cleanser in South Africa’s often foul tasting political banquet. The possibility of her suspension from the Electoral Commission over a failure to disclose conflict of interest in a lease agreement would have enormous repercussions on the political landscape: the loss of a steadfast hand on the tiller of next year’s elections.
I’m often asked if I’m ever driven to tears by our politics, and if so which emotion I feel at the time. There were plenty of occasions when the tears came from frustration, there’ve been others, more recently, when I simply felt fed up with an untenable and wrong situation. And there’ve been others when the tears come from laughter. But today, the tears are coming from disappointment. We have very few people in our public life we trust completely, who we must trust completely. And when one of them falls, we’re all that much weaker for it.
I’ve known Pansy Tlakula for many years. She may not know this of course, but I’ve been one of those people who have bugged her for a sound bite, called her at some unearthly hour of the morning begging for an explanation of some arcane electoral point.
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