, April 19 -- The Regulations are applicable to broadcasting service licensees during the election period, including Political Parties and Independent Candidates contesting the upcoming national and provincial elections.

On 19 March 2024, the Democratic Alliance brought an urgent application before the High Court of South Africa, Gauteng Local Division, Johannesburg challenging, amongst others, the constitutionality and validity of the amendment to Regulation 4(2) of the Regulations on the basis that the amended Regulations constitutes a limitation to their rights enshrined in sections 16(1)(b) and 19(1)(c) and (2) of the Constitution of the RSA, 1996.

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On 28 March 2024, the Court delivered a judgment in which it upheld the chall...