{"id":968288,"date":"2024-07-02T07:15:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968288"},"modified":"2024-07-02T07:15:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:15:16","slug":"iec-official-found-with-voting-material-back-in-pmb-court-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/iec-official-found-with-voting-material-back-in-pmb-court-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"IEC official found with voting material back in PMB court today"},"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>The Pietermaritzburg Magistrate\u2019s Court is expected to hear the case of an Electoral Commission (IEC) official charged with the contravention of the Electoral Act today.<\/p>\n<p>IEC Area Manager in uMsunduzi, Musawenkosi Mnikathi, was arrested during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/sabcnews\/iec-confirms-arrests-for-election-tampering-allegations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 29 general elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mnikathi is accused of moving voting materials without a police escort.<\/p>\n<p>During his previous court appearance, the magistrate dismissed Mnikathi\u2019s application to have this matter referred to the Electoral Court.<\/p>\n<p>The State had indicated that this was a criminal matter which needed to be dealt with in a criminal court.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested after the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party opened a case on election day.<\/p>\n<p>During Mnikathi\u2019s first appearance last week, the party embarked on a march calling for new elections.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BmaUEgk5LLE?si=3DOki5RBLCCExZg9\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><strong><br \/>\nVIDEO|Court dismisses IEC area manager\u2019s application:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pietermaritzburg IEC official accused of contravening Electoral Act officially charged<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aOqkfkBBJR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/aOqkfkBBJR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 uMkhonto WeSizwe Party (@MkhontoweSizwex) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MkhontoweSizwex\/status\/1806389266076811308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 27, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: &lt; 1 minute The Pietermaritzburg Magistrate\u2019s Court is expected to hear the case of an Electoral Commission (IEC) official charged with the contravention of the Electoral Act today. IEC Area Manager in uMsunduzi, Musawenkosi Mnikathi, was arrested during the May 29 general elections. Mnikathi is accused of moving voting materials without a police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":968289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[2050,974,3125,1991,3152],"class_list":["post-968288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-may-29-general-elections","tag-mk-party","tag-pietermaritzburg-magistrates-court","tag-umkhonto-wesizwe","tag-umsunduzi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968288","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}