{"id":967474,"date":"2024-05-29T16:39:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967474"},"modified":"2024-05-29T16:39:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T16:39:58","slug":"magashule-criticises-iec-for-dismissing-act-regional-ballot-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/magashule-criticises-iec-for-dismissing-act-regional-ballot-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Magashule criticises IEC for dismissing ACT regional ballot contest"},"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>African Congress for Transformation leader Ace Magashule says there\u2019s nothing that excites him after voting in these elections.<\/p>\n<p>Magashule says the IEC did not do justice by disallowing them to be on the regional ballot.<\/p>\n<p>He voted this morning at the AME church in the Tumahole township of Parys in the northern Free State, flanked by his supporters.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Our President-General <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ace_magashule?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ace_magashule<\/a> comments on the alleged irregularities by the IEC in the current National elections. Transparency and fairness are non-negotiable in our democracy. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VoteACT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#VoteACT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VoteACT2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#VoteACT2024<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ace Magashule <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/saelection24?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#saelection24<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/elections2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#elections2024<\/a> eNCA <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VoetsekANC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#VoetsekANC<\/a> MK and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fvnKA44oSA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/fvnKA44oSA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 African Congress for Transformation (@actonlinesa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/actonlinesa\/status\/1795464946525835426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He says services have never been the same in the Free State ever since he left as a Premier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were robbed by the IEC for refusing to allow us to be in the regional paper because in 2021 the ANC did the same thing, technical glitches. This morning at 11 o\u2019clock as I listened to the news, IEC is complaining about technical glitches. Is it not what we went to court about technical glitches because ours was just to load the names of candidates? So is there justice, I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024 Elections | ACT leader Ace Magashule votes in Parys<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6mk2cHM6VG8?si=Xt8LzHaDCb2LmpQx\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes African Congress for Transformation leader Ace Magashule says there\u2019s nothing that excites him after voting in these elections. Magashule says the IEC did not do justice by disallowing them to be on the regional ballot. He voted this morning at the AME church in the Tumahole township of Parys in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":967475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1591,2367,2177,362,2052],"class_list":["post-967474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-ace-magashule","tag-african-congress-for-transformation","tag-free-state","tag-may-29-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967474","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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}