The party has until Thursday to respond to the IEC’s appeal on Jacob Zuma's eligibility to stand for parliament
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.Jacob Zuma addresses members of the uMkhonto weSizwe party outside the high court in Johannesburg on April 11, 2024.
“On any of the arguments that were made before it, the electoral court is wrong in law,” the IEC said of the court’s decision, handed down just days earlier. The MK Party argued that the IEC exceeded its powers because only parliament could implement section 47. The very purpose of section 47 was to determine whether a candidate was eligible to stand in an election, and it was nonsensical to allow a candidate to stand if that person would not be able to take up a seat in parliament.
Lawyers for the MK Party made much of the fact that Zuma served barely two months in prison, because his sentence was remitted after his early release on medical parole was found unlawful.
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