ATM’s bid to set aside elections dismissed by Electoral Court

The court said the main difficulty with the ATM’s case was that the application consisted almost exclusively of a sweeping, vague and general allegations, none of which were supported by evidence.“The unsubstantiated averments, which litter the founding papers of the ATM, are nothing more than mere assertions and expressions based on unfounded suspicions, and more often than not based on inadmissible hearsay,” Adams said. Adams said ATM leader Vuyo Zungula bizarrely attempted to justify the lack of evidence by stating in his founding affidavit that he “need not burden the…