Johannesburg, 03 June, 2024 / 9:00 pm (ACI Africa).
Members of the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) have lauded South Africa for conducting free and fair elections despite experiencing “minor issues” during the voting process.
General elections in South Africa were conducted on May 29 to elect a new National Assembly and the provincial legislatures in each of the country’s nine provinces. This was the seventh general election conducted under universal adult suffrage since the end of the apartheid era in 1994.
In their statement on Monday, June 3, SACBC members, who include Catholic Bishops in Botswana, Eswatini, and South Africa, acknowledged with appreciation the people’s voice on how they want to be governed.
Joining other observers in the country including the Southern African Development Community (SADEC) and the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), the Bishops said, “This election has been overwhelmingly free and fair.”
“While minor issues have been noted, these have not compromised the overall integrity of the polls,” SACBC members added in the statement that their President, Bishop Sithembele Sipuka, signed.
