{"id":968112,"date":"2024-06-17T04:41:48","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T04:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968112"},"modified":"2024-06-17T04:41:48","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T04:41:48","slug":"zuma-to-approach-international-court-over-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/zuma-to-approach-international-court-over-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuma to approach international court over election results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time:\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"rt-time\">2<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/mk-party-accuses-iec-concourt-of-ignoring-election-rigging-evidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Party<\/a>\u00a0leader Jacob Zuma says that the party will approach an international court over the alleged rigging of last month\u2019s elections.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s decision comes after its bid to have the results of the elections declared invalid failed in the Electoral Court.<\/p>\n<p>Zuma says that the MK Party has instructed its legal teams to take any steps, inside and outside South Africa, to ensure that justice is served.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not have the South African judges doing so, judges who get angry and sentence you because they hate you. We are going to the judges who look at things and look at issues. We are going there.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#MK<\/a> Zuma: The sellout ANC of Ramaphosa has taken us back to 1948, millions and millions of our people have realized that the freedom starts with the removal of the ANC of Ramaphosa. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/sabcnews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#sabcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #LordOfTheMedia (@samkelemaseko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/samkelemaseko\/status\/1802370380910260517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 16, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The MK Party says the Electoral Commission (IEC) and the Constitutional Court have ignored evidence provided to support the party\u2019s claims that last month\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/mk-party-atm-want-re-run-claim-polls-not-free-and-fair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elections were rigged<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The MK party accuses the Constitutional Court of relying on technicalities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe presented concrete evidence to the IEC, showing widespread irregularities in the voting process and the voting system, it has all fallen on deaf ears. We\u2019ve also tried all peaceful means to address our grievances, but all in vain. We\u2019ve even approached the highest court in the land, but it rejected our pleas without even giving us a hearing, and they\u2019re relying on technicalities while the democracy itself is being destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO | In the video below the MK Party\u2019s Nhlamulo Ndhlela says the elections were a total sham:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zkln8czWs-s?si=N3uXfwG2tig80UX3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The MK Party has also accused the governing African National Congress (ANC) of being the enemy of progress.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC is in the process of forming a government of national unity with the Democratic Alliance, the Inkatha Freedom Party and others.<\/p>\n<p>The party also used the briefing to denounce what it calls the \u201cANC of Ramaphosa\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time:\u00a02\u00a0minutes uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Party\u00a0leader Jacob Zuma says that the party will approach an international court over the alleged rigging of last month\u2019s elections. The party\u2019s decision comes after its bid to have the results of the elections declared invalid failed in the Electoral Court. Zuma says that the MK Party has instructed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":968113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[2137,544,1098,974,2280],"class_list":["post-968112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-constitutional-court","tag-electoral-court","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-mk-party","tag-umkhonto-we-sizwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968112","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\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}