{"id":967309,"date":"2024-05-27T07:27:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T07:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967309"},"modified":"2024-05-27T07:27:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T07:27:49","slug":"iec-to-take-legal-action-against-mk-party-members-in-hammersdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/iec-to-take-legal-action-against-mk-party-members-in-hammersdale\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC to take legal action against MK Party members in Hammersdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">The Independent Electoral Commission\u2019s (IEC) Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Masego<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Shiburi, <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">says legal action will be taken against members of the <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">uMkhonto<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> weS<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">izwe<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> (MK) Party for illegally interfering with <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">operations in one of its warehouses at <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Hammarsdale, <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">west of Durban. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">This comes after videos circulating on social media showing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/mk-party-alleges-election-irregularities-in-hammersdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MK members citing irregularities<\/a> in the delivery of voting material being delivered to different parts of\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">KwaZulu-<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Natal.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Shiburi<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> has strongly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/iec-urges-political-leaders-to-prevent-election-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">condemned the threatening of their staff<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u201cIn H<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">ammarsdale, <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">a group of persons purported to be members, supporters, or leaders of MK took over our warehouse, detained our people there, refused for them to leave and started <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">circulating\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">videos on social media claiming that they found millions of ballot boxes already marked for a particular party. That can\u2019t be further from the truth. They were marked properly with the details of the voting stations and in any case, there are standard verifications that must happen before a voting station is open. We will take action because this is a flagrant disregard of the law prohibiting anyone from interfering with electoral operations.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>PODCAST | <span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Deputy Chief Electoral Officer <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Masego<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Shiburi\u2019s interview on SAFM:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"the electoral commission saying in a statement last night that MK members had entered one of its warehouses in Hammarsdale in KZN - and in fact the IEC instructing the leadersehip of MK to leave this warehouse.\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/safm-sunrise-1\/the-electoral-commission-saying-in-a-statement-las\/embed?in_playlist=podcast\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cele condemns violence\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">Meanwhile, Police\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">M<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">inister Bheki Cele has condemned\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/concerns-over-attacks-on-political-party-members-ahead-of-2024-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acts of violence<\/a><\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">\u00a0in some parts of the country ahead of the elections<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">I<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">ncidents of attacks on members of political\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">parties\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">during electioneering have become widespread in parts of the country<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">.<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">In Tshwane, Democratic Alliance (DA) members were allegedly attacked by a group of unknown people in Mshongoville in Attredgeville last week while putting up election campaign posters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">More incidents of political intolerance have also occurred in the North West and Limpopo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">Cele says political parties should work with the police to ensure the smooth running of the elections. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-gb\">\u201cAs we observe the space going forward, we have found some little bit of stabilisation than other elections. I hope prosecutors themselves will take the matter of breaking the law very seriously but we are also speaking with political parties themselves and they are coming together in the monitoring of the elections.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO | Bheki Cele slams election-related violence:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dl27D3E-S7M?si=zyY992jmLPUL8Svu\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes The Independent Electoral Commission\u2019s (IEC) Deputy Chief Electoral Officer, Masego\u00a0Shiburi, says legal action will be taken against members of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party for illegally interfering with operations in one of its warehouses at Hammarsdale, west of Durban. This comes after videos circulating on social media showing MK members citing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1279,1593,1896,974,1991],"class_list":["post-967309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-elections","tag-iec","tag-independent-electoral-commission","tag-mk-party","tag-umkhonto-wesizwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967309","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=967309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}