{"id":967100,"date":"2024-05-19T19:33:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T19:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967100"},"modified":"2024-05-19T19:33:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T19:33:48","slug":"concourt-to-deliver-judgment-in-iec-appeal-on-zumas-eligibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/concourt-to-deliver-judgment-in-iec-appeal-on-zumas-eligibility\/","title":{"rendered":"ConCourt to deliver judgment in IEC appeal on Zuma\u2019s eligibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Constitutional Court will on Monday hand down its judgment on the IEC&#8217;s appeal against the Electoral court order on former President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>The apex court heard arguments earlier this month on the correct interpretation of Section 47(1)(E) of the Constitution &#8211; which governs who qualifies for membership of the National Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>The IEC&#8217;s case seeks to bring finality to the correct interpretation and whether it applies to former President Zuma, who was sentenced to 15-months imprisonment for contempt in the same apex court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024 Elections | Mpumelelo Zikalala on Zuma&#8217;s candidacy court case:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EnvmfBBpiiQ?si=yRzflQjxbsXQQSTF\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/939578-2\/?hilite=IEC+Zuma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The apex court will answer several questions in its judgment<\/a>, including: on the proper interpretation of the said section, is Zuma disqualified from standing as a candidate for the National Assembly?<\/p>\n<p>What effect does a remission of sentence have on a sentence for the purposes of that section? As well as whether the Commission exceeded its powers or demonstrated a reasonable apprehension of bias when it determined the eligibility of Zuma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024 Elections | Outcome of IEC&#8217;s ConCourt appeal against Zuma&#8217;s candidacy won&#8217;t affect ballot paper:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/F5AQbjME3rQ?si=AWtzKfMcNSfd408g\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Constitutional Court will on Monday hand down its judgment on the IEC&#8217;s appeal against the Electoral court order on former President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s candidacy. The apex court heard arguments earlier this month on the correct interpretation of Section 47(1)(E) of the Constitution &#8211; which governs who qualifies for membership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":967101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[2137,544,1593,1098],"class_list":["post-967100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-constitutional-court","tag-electoral-court","tag-iec","tag-jacob-zuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967100","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}