Jacob Zuma, MK party join a chorus of parties alleging irregularities in the digital management of the elections results.
MK party leader Jacob Zuma at the IEC Results Centre in Midrand on Saturday evening, 1 June 2024. Picture: Nigel Sibanda/ The Citizen
The former president said during a briefing that the election results shouldn’t be announced tomorrow until all objections have been dealt with.According to Zuma, the MK party has “proof” that vote-rigging allegedly went on “in the background” when the IEC dashboard crashed on Friday morning for about two hours.
The former president, who was flanked by his daughter Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla and MK party members, added that if the IEC declares the results tomorrow, it will “provoke people” and warned that there will be “trouble”.is calling for a recount of the ballots, claiming that the process is being rigged to prevent it from securing an outright majority in KwaZulu-Natal.Earlier in the day, the MK party has complained and requested a manual recount of the votes in Mpumalanga, Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.
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