ERC trains elections monitors

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has concluded a two-day training session of 62 part-time media and elections campaign monitors to ensure that no racial hostility is incited at political meetings in the run up to the upcoming polls.

In a press release, the ERC said the sessions were aimed at ensuring that coverage of political meetings, campaigns and rallies does not employ language and action that can “incite/excite racial hostility.”

It added that the training and deployment of monitors is also aimed at ensuring that the environment before, during and after the elections is free from fear and