Mike Moriarty, the DA's principal representative on the party liaison committee of the IEC, said the party would go to court to set aside the ruling.
The DA sent that message to the cellphones of 1.5-million potential voters in March 2014 in Gauteng following findings by the public protector on upgrades to Zuma's Nkandla home.
The ANC appealed the high court decision to the Electoral Court, which ruled in favour of the ANC and held that the statement was false because the Nkandla report did not find that Zuma had stolen"your money" to build his R246m home. The court gave a number of examples of false statements: such statements could be that a candidate for a particular office had died, or that voting hours had been changed, or that a bomb had been placed, or had exploded, at a particular voting station.
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