MK Party's bid to challenge outcome of 2024 elections postponed
The Electoral Court was scheduled to hear the matter on Tuesday, but the matter was postponed at the request of the official opposition.
Picture: A man wearing an MK Party shirt attends the Shekainah Healing Ministries Prophetic Pillowcase service where Former President Jacob Zuma was present, in Phillipi, near Cape Town, on March 10, 2024. Picture: GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP
JOHANNESBURG - Proceedings in the Electoral Court will not go ahead on Tuesday in the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party’s application challenging the outcome of the 2024 national and provincial elections.
The specialist court was scheduled to hear the matter on Tuesday, but the matter has been postponed at the request of the official opposition.
This after the party filed a notice to appeal the judgment of the court in an earlier interlocutory application, which dismissed its application to have the court order the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) to provide it with access to documents it used before pronouncing on the results of the watershed elections.
Over a year has passed since South Africans headed to the polls, and the MK Party argues that the system experienced significant downtime and exhibited grave inconsistencies and inaccuracies in the reported results, undermining the constitutional requirement for free and fair elections.
It also wants President Cyril Ramaphosa to declare a new election date within 90 days from which an order may be made.
But the main application has stalled as the party continues its bid to appeal a judgment of the Electoral Court, which dismissed its application to have the IEC relinquish some documents which the party feels would be key in advancing its case.
The IEC, however, said it had handed over the documents requested by the party.
A new date for the hearing is yet to be determined.
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