Zuma appoints Janet Love as IEC commissioner
President Jacob Zuma on Friday announced the appointment of human rights activist Janet Love as a commissioner of the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC).
“Ms Love is filling a vacancy left by the resignation of Ms Raenette Taljaard in February 2015,” Zuma’s office said in a statement.
“President Zuma wishes Ms Love all the best in her new responsibility.”
Love, a former anti-apartheid activist and ANC MP, was involved in Codesa, the negotiations which ended white minority rule and brought about the first democratic elections in South Africa.
Her nomination to the IEC received unanimous backing from the political parties represented in Parliament.
Love is also a part time commissioner with the South African Human Rights Commission and is the national director of the Legal Resource Centre, the non-profit public interest law clinic.
She is the only woman on the five-member commission. - ANA