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IEC reveals 45% of new MPs will be women as Mogoeng receives candidate lists

JOHANNESBURG - At least 45% of lawmakers in the soon to be installed sixth Parliament of South Africa will be women, the Independent Electoral Commission of SA said on Wednesday.

Mashinini said the female representation was up from 42% after the 2014 elections. The legislature with the highest women representation is Mpumalanga where half of the legislators will be female. Mogoeng urged the members of the new administrations to be ethical and remember that the constitutional goal of eradicating the injustices of the past.

Power is dangerous, Mogoeng warned, adding that South Africa would not be as it is currently if leaders and civil servants did not break the oath they took.

 

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