{"id":967785,"date":"2024-06-01T18:52:58","date_gmt":"2024-06-01T18:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=967785"},"modified":"2024-06-01T18:52:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T18:52:58","slug":"mk-party-calls-for-a-commission-of-inquiry-into-election-rigging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/mk-party-calls-for-a-commission-of-inquiry-into-election-rigging\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Party calls for a commission of inquiry into \u2018election rigging\u2019"},"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>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/anc-kzn-admits-underestimating-impact-of-mk-party\/?hilite=MK+Party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party<\/a> says it wants a commission inquiry established that will allege discrepancies that transpired in the capturing of election results for this year\u2019s general elections.<\/p>\n<p>The party alleges that elections have been rigged.<\/p>\n<p>MK Party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela was speaking to media at the National Results Centre in Midrand on Saturday evening<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to get to the bottom of exactly what transpired and we are going to push for that. It stops with the MK. It stops with President Zuma,\u201d he says in an impromptu press briefing that was attended by some members of the party\u2019s leadership, including former President Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n<p>Zuma made a surprise visit to the National Results Operation Centre, bringing the house to a standstill.<\/p>\n<p>Zuma interacted with various parties including the Patriotic Alliance\u2019s (PA) president Gayton McKenzie and his deputy Kenny Kunene.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Patriotic Alliance President Gayton Mckenzie exchanges with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MKParty?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MKParty<\/a> President Jacob Zuma during his walkabout at the IEC Results Operations Center. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SABCNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SABCNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/2024elections?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#2024elections<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/uMkhonto?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#uMkhonto<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MquTktnXHi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/MquTktnXHi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sipho King K Kekana (@KingKAzania) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KingKAzania\/status\/1796962312944828426?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also moved over to the MK\u2019s stations where the MK\u2019s performance and results were further explained.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the party confirmed it has since submitted evidence of discrepancies that took place at some voting stations to the IEC.<\/p>\n<p>It declined to divulge the type of evidence submitted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 2 minutes The uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party says it wants a commission inquiry established that will allege discrepancies that transpired in the capturing of election results for this year\u2019s general elections. The party alleges that elections have been rigged. MK Party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela was speaking to media at the National Results Centre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":967786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[1591,1098,974,2973,2972,1991],"class_list":["post-967785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-general-elections","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-mk-party","tag-mk-party-spokesperson-nhlamulo-ndhlela","tag-national-results-centre","tag-umkhonto-wesizwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967785","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=967785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/967786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}