{"id":967122,"date":"2024-05-21T03:51:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T03:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967122"},"modified":"2024-05-21T03:51:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T03:51:44","slug":"electoral-court-to-hear-mk-party-founder-jabulani-khumalos-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/electoral-court-to-hear-mk-party-founder-jabulani-khumalos-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Court to hear MK Party \u2018founder\u2019 Jabulani\u00a0Khumalo\u2019s case"},"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><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">The Electoral Court will today hear the case of the man who registered the uMkhonto weSizwe Party,<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Jabulani<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Khumalo,<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> and the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Khumalo<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> wants the court to declare invalid the commission&#8217;s registration of Jacob\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Zuma<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> as the party leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">According to\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Khumalo,<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0the court must compel the commission to register him as the MK party leader.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Khumalo, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/khumalo-turns-to-electoral-court-to-remove-zuma-as-mk-party-leader\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently expelled<\/a> from the party, wrote to the IEC earlier this month to have Zuma, who is currently the face of the party on the ballot removed.<\/p>\n<p>The IEC, in a statement, said it does not involve itself in the internal affairs of political parties and further confirmed that the registered leader of the MK Party is Zuma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The video below reports more on the story:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/npASpPPwiWs?si=UDLK3ygX3yZSPIRn\" 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<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">[MEDIA STATEMENT]<\/p>\n<p>Letter regarding the removal of Mr Jacob Zuma from the list of members of Parliament of MK Party<\/p>\n<p>The Electoral Commission confirms that it has received communication from Mr Jabulani Khumalo on behalf of the MK Party. The letter has also been circulated\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SwlAMTFgLH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/SwlAMTFgLH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IEC South Africa (@IECSouthAfrica) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IECSouthAfrica\/status\/1787798033054269885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 7, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Electoral Court will today hear the case of the man who registered the uMkhonto weSizwe Party,\u00a0Jabulani\u00a0Khumalo, and the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). Khumalo wants the court to declare invalid the commission&#8217;s registration of Jacob\u00a0Zuma as the party leader. According to\u00a0Khumalo,\u00a0the court must compel the commission to register him as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[544,1593,1896,1098,974],"class_list":["post-967122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-electoral-court","tag-iec","tag-independent-electoral-commission","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-mk-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967122","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}