Electoral Court
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MK party wants to lead oral argument in its challenge to 29 May election result
Jacob Zuma’s party says oral evidence will assist the court in understanding its ‘technical’ argument
Politics will continue to play out in courts in 2025
From parliament’s rejection of the Phala Phala report to the president’s signing of the NHI Act, the courts are again due to pronounce on consequential political acts
MK party to contest every ward in 2026 local government elections
Jacob Zuma’s party aims for a branch in every ward by the middle of 2025
MK party claims computer expert is the subject of another ‘politically motivated attack’
The party says the alleged harassment of Vusi Mhlongo caused delays in it filing court papers in its electoral case
IT expert faces dismissal, death threats over role in MK party election challenge
Vusi Mhlongo has been charged with bringing the Moses Kotane Research Institute into disrepute
Electoral court orders MK party to pay punitive costs in electoral challenge
The court said how the uMkhonto weSizwe party had brought and then abandoned its application was outside the norms of litigation practice
ANC suffers ongoing harm from MK party’s logo and name, court hears
The ANC said the prejudice did not end with the May election as it argued for leave to appeal the high court’s dismissal of its trademark case This content is restricted to…
Ramaphosa’s counsel: DA’s challenge on pre-poll speech is ‘cynical’
The party has claimed that the president crossed the line into campaigning and broke the law when he addressed the nation three days before the May elections This content is…
Electoral court to hear MK party’s election challenge on 29 July
The IEC set a hearing date despite the party’s bid to temporarily withdraw the case
Electoral commission: Like MK party, the ATM gives no evidence of election rigging
The commission said the African Transformation Movement’s bid to overturn the outcome of the May election is meritless because it has no proof to back its claims
ATM to forge ahead with vote rigging case, despite MK party dumping it ‘for now’
ATM president Vuyo Zungula said the party’s case was not dependent on another organisation and it was waiting for a court date This content is restricted to registered users and…
African Transformation Movement challenges election results and demands a rerun
The party argues in court papers that its votes were ‘stolen’ because the IEC manipulated the voting process
Zuma’s MK party asks electoral court to order a rerun of May vote
The party claims that had it not been for blatant rigging, it would probably have won the elections
Jabulani Khumalo loses legal challenge on MK party leadership
The electoral court found that Khumalo was no longer a member of the party, a day after he filed a high court application to claim the right to be sworn in as an MP This content…
Only the MK party intent on challenging the election outcome
Other parties flagged irregularities but want to distance themselves from MK and Jacob Zuma’s efforts to discredit the elections