Former president Jacob Zuma and the MK party will have until next week to file their answering affidavits.
) party have been given an extension to file answering affidavits in the Constitutional Court to an urgent appeal by the Electoral Commission of South Africa (
The IEC approached the apex court after the Electoral Court set aside an objection to Zuma running in next month’sPODCAST: ‘I know what Zuma stands for but not Ramaphosa’: ACDP’s Meshoe on 30 years in parliamentMK Party this week said it was seeking legal advice over the directive. It also accused the IEC of “playing politics”.
“We have always been concerned about the conduct of the IEC. From where we are sitting, they should not have lodged a motion to appeal in the first place. The objection was never theirs,” MK spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndlela told enter into politics? Their job is to help citizens vote. Who the next president of the nation is is none of their business. They saw my name and now they are saying Zuma will never go there,” the The IEC rubbished claims it was involving itself in politics.
“We have noted that the orders were issued without reasoned judgment. In order to understand the basis of the conclusions reached in both matters, it is important that reasons are provided. We will accordingly request the Electoral Court to hand down reasons for the orders made.“Naturally the commission is taking legal advice on the matters and will chart a way forward based on such advice as well as reasoned judgements that it may receive, hopefully, in the not-too-distant future,” it said.
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