{"id":967445,"date":"2024-05-29T10:13:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967445"},"modified":"2024-05-29T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T10:13:55","slug":"courts-will-decide-on-das-legal-challenge-against-me-ramaphosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/courts-will-decide-on-das-legal-challenge-against-me-ramaphosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Courts will decide on DA\u2019s legal challenge against me: Ramaphosa"},"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>President Cyril\u00a0Ramaphosa\u00a0has responded to criticisms of his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/943571-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national address on Sunday<\/a> just\u00a0days before\u00a0today\u2019s general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/da-takes-ramaphosa-to-court-over-pre-elections-national-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Alliance (DA) has filed papers<\/a>\u00a0at the Electoral Court\u00a0against\u00a0Ramaphosa\u00a0over his address.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u00a0says this was in violation of the\u00a0Electoral Act and is asking that the votes of the\u00a0ANC\u00a0be reduced by one percent.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/mk-party-slams-ramaphosas-pre-election-national-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uMkhontho weSizwe<\/a> (MK) party reiterated DA\u2019s stance, labelling the speech as an abuse of power as it was delivered just a day before the special votes.<\/p>\n<p>In a televised address, the president highlighted the successes of the 6<sup>th<\/sup> administration.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa\u00a0says he will leave the matter to the courts to decide.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking at Tshiawelo in Soweto where he cast his vote with his wife Tshepo Motsepe.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">\u201cSome political parties have taken issue with the address\u00a0<\/span>I delivered. It had two components \u2013 one, to talk about the readiness of the elections and two, to close off the 6<sup>th<\/sup> administration which is coming to an end\u2026and that is a matter that is now subjected to the courts and our judges are the ones who will pronounce the final judgment on this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,\u00a0<span xml_lang=\"en-us\">Ramaphosa<\/span><span xml_lang=\"en-us\"> says voting will help to strengthen the country\u2019s democracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ramaphosa spoke to the media after casting his vote: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qus_n1d1FbI?si=xjW_xwndsk3hY0HD\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes President Cyril\u00a0Ramaphosa\u00a0has responded to criticisms of his national address on Sunday just\u00a0days before\u00a0today\u2019s general elections. The Democratic Alliance (DA) has filed papers\u00a0at the Electoral Court\u00a0against\u00a0Ramaphosa\u00a0over his address. The party\u00a0says this was in violation of the\u00a0Electoral Act and is asking that the votes of the\u00a0ANC\u00a0be reduced by one percent. The uMkhontho weSizwe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":967446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1591,309,234,339,2052,974,2796,2797],"class_list":["post-967445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-da","tag-democratic-alliance","tag-may-29-elections","tag-mk-party","tag-tshiawelo-in-soweto","tag-umkhontho-wesizwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967445","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}