{"id":963916,"date":"2024-07-02T07:14:39","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=963916"},"modified":"2024-07-02T07:14:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:14:39","slug":"iec-official-found-with-voting-material-back-in-pmb-court-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/iec-official-found-with-voting-material-back-in-pmb-court-today\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC official found with voting material back in PMB court today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pietermaritzburg Magistrate&#8217;s Court is expected to hear the case of an Electoral Commission (IEC) official charged with the contravention of the Electoral Act today.<\/p>\n<p>IEC Area Manager in uMsunduzi, Musawenkosi Mnikathi, was arrested during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/iec-confirms-arrests-for-election-tampering-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 29 general elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mnikathi is accused of moving voting materials without a police escort.<\/p>\n<p>During his previous court appearance, the magistrate dismissed Mnikathi&#8217;s application to have this matter referred to the Electoral Court.<\/p>\n<p>The State had indicated that this was a criminal matter which needed to be dealt with in a criminal court.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested after the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party opened a case on election day.<\/p>\n<p>During Mnikathi&#8217;s first appearance last week, the party embarked on a march calling for new elections.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nVIDEO|Court dismisses IEC area manager&#8217;s application:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BmaUEgk5LLE?si=iiJn_bgzvDr7AnzX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pietermaritzburg IEC official accused of contravening Electoral Act officially charged<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aOqkfkBBJR\">https:\/\/t.co\/aOqkfkBBJR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 uMkhonto WeSizwe Party (@MkhontoweSizwex) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MkhontoweSizwex\/status\/1806389266076811308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IEC Area Manager in uMsunduzi is accused of moving voting materials without a police escort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":963917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,217],"tags":[421,422],"class_list":["post-963916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections-2024","category-south-africa","tag-electoral-commission-of-south-africa-iec","tag-iec-official"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}