From parliament’s rejection of the Phala Phala report to the president’s signing of the NHI Act, the courts are again due to pronounce on consequential political acts

The court said how the uMkhonto weSizwe party had brought and then abandoned its application was outside the norms of litigation practice

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The IEC set a hearing date despite the party’s bid to temporarily withdraw the case

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Other parties flagged irregularities but want to distance themselves from MK and Jacob Zuma’s efforts to discredit the elections

It faced budget cuts, the burden of an amended electoral system and a legal challenge from Jacob Zuma

The apex court held that his 15-month sentence disqualified him in terms of the Constitution and that the remission of the jail term did not alter that fact

The court wants the parties’ views, by Tuesday, on whether IEC commissioner Janet Love should have recused herself from the decision on Jacob Zuma’s eligibility

The hearing of the IEC’s appeal to the electoral court’s finding that Zuma was eligible for parliament saw a tense exchange between counsel and the bench

The former president’s legal team alleged a reasonable fear of bias but faced an uphill battle in persuading judges to recuse themselves from deciding if he is eligible for parliament

The court’s reasoning for overturning the decision that the former president was not eligible to run for parliament rested on a misreading of law and case law, the electoral body argued

The party has until Thursday to respond to the IEC’s appeal on Jacob Zuma’s eligibility to stand for parliament

The president told supporters in Kwa-Zulu Natal that Jacob Zuma’s MK party posed no threat to the ANC in next month’s elections

The electoral commission said its application for leave to appeal was urgent because the outcome would affect the choice millions of voters make in May