{"id":968394,"date":"2025-04-15T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=968394"},"modified":"2025-04-15T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:00:07","slug":"da-loses-challenge-against-ramaphosas-pre-election-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/da-loses-challenge-against-ramaphosas-pre-election-address\/","title":{"rendered":"DA loses challenge against Ramaphosa&#8217;s pre-election address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/prd-news-admin1-new\/sabcnews\/electoral-court-to-hear-das-case-against-ramaphosas-may-26-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic Alliance (DA) has lost its legal challenge against President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s Sunday address<\/a> to the nation (in his capacity as Head of State) on the 26th of May 2024 ahead of the hotly contested elections just a few days later on the 29th.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"> The Electoral Court dismissed the party&#8217;s application in a judgment today. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The DA hauled the President before the court in a hearing in July accusing President Ramaphosa of &#8220;abusing the highest office in the land for flagrant electioneering&#8221;. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Electoral Court, however, in its judgment concluded that the President&#8217;s conduct did not compromise the freeness or fairness of the elections and that there was no evidence that the President&#8217;s address had any tangible impact on the elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING NEWS: The Democratic Alliance has lost its Electoral Court case over President Cyril Ramaphosa\u2019s address to the nation ahead of the May polls. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/n2Yf08dVSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/n2Yf08dVSV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SABC News (@SABCNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SABCNews\/status\/1848309056936550839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">October 21, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Alliance (DA) has lost its legal challenge against President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s Sunday address to the nation (in his capacity as Head of State) on the 26th of May 2024 ahead of the hotly contested elections just a few days later on the 29th.\u00a0 The Electoral Court dismissed the party&#8217;s application in a judgment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":968395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1895],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968394","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=968394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}