The governing party has lost its battle over uMkhonto weSizwe party’s registration
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.All in a name: Jacob Zuma enters the court hearing the case of the uMkhonto weSizwe logo.
The MK party was “riding on the ANC’s coattails” by using the logo, which it had chosen with the intention of “confusing” voters ahead of the 29 May elections. “Of all the logos they could have used, they adopted one which is identical to that of the MK warrior. They are trying to draw the link. There is no other reason to have done that,” Marriott said.
The confusion on the part of voters would not only happen at the ballot box, but “it is part of the process that is happening right now”, Marriott said. Turning to remedy, the law allowed a party to change its name, logo or abbreviated name after registration with the IEC, he said. Mpofu said the assignment of rights from the MK Legacy Project to the ANC on 23 September last year did not give the ANC standing to bring the trademark application because it was not the registered sole proprietor of the trademark.
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