{"id":967321,"date":"2024-05-27T10:12:52","date_gmt":"2024-05-27T10:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967321"},"modified":"2024-05-27T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T10:12:52","slug":"iec-issues-warning-against-obstruction-of-its-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/iec-issues-warning-against-obstruction-of-its-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC issues warning against obstruction of its operations"},"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\">Chief Electoral Officer, <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Sy<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Mamabolo,<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> has issued a stern warning to political parties to refrain from obstructing the operations of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Mamabolo says this is a violation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/political-parties-to-sign-electoral-code-of-conduct-ahead-of-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Electoral Code of Conduct<\/a> of the Electoral Act. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">He has also slammed allegations of vote rigging.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> This comes after circulating videos on social media with uMkhontho we Sizwe (MK) members citing irregularities in the delivery of voting material in one of <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">IEC<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u00a0warehouses at\u00a0<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/iec-to-take-legal-action-against-mk-party-members-in-hammersdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hammarsdale<\/a>, <\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">west of Durban. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Mamabolo<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> says these were planned logistical arrangements and storage of election material.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span xml_lang=\"en-us\">\u201cThe distribution of those ballots was happening in terms of our logistical plan. MK gained access into that facility and started taking unauthorised videos of that facility, demanding to take the serial number of boxes. We want to warn leaders of political parties that obstructing the work of the commission is in fact a violation of the Code of Conduct and other provisions of the Electoral Act. Don\u2019t interfere with our work, if you\u2019re unhappy note your unhappiness but don\u2019t be obstructive.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO | IEC dismisses vote rigging allegations:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TeRZAYR3pxI?si=dHtsUbtSH1WpdMuK\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute Chief Electoral Officer, Sy\u00a0Mamabolo, has issued a stern warning to political parties to refrain from obstructing the operations of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). Mamabolo says this is a violation of the Electoral Code of Conduct of the Electoral Act. He has also slammed allegations of vote rigging. This comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":967322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1593,2695,1896,2696,2697],"class_list":["post-967321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-iec","tag-iec-dismisses-vote-rigging-allegations","tag-independent-electoral-commission","tag-mk-members","tag-umkhontho-we-sizwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967321","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}