Former president Jacob Zuma. Photo: Fani Mahuntsi/Getty Images
Each of the grounds the uMkhonto weSiswe (MK) Party raised in its successful appeal to the Electoral Commission of SA’s decision that former president Jacob Zuma cannot stand for parliament in next month’s elections was spurious, the commission argues in papers filed to the Constitutional Court.
“On any of the arguments that were made before it, the electoral court is wrong in law,” the IEC said of the court’s decision to overrule its decision that Zuma was not eligible to…
