IEC ‘erred’ in barring Zuma from contesting elections, says MK party in appeal

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Jacob Zuma enters the court hearing the case of the uMkhonto weSizwe logo. Photo: Darren Stewart/Gallo Images

The uMkhonto weSizwe party says that the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) “prejudged” former president Jacob Zuma’s case when it removed him from the list of candidates eligible to stand in the 29 May elections.

In papers filed to the Electoral Court on Tuesday to appeal the decision to bar Zuma from standing, the MK party’s legal team said there were at least seven grounds on which the IEC had “erred” in barring the…



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