Two EC officials resign over voting irregularities

01 Feb 2016 | Admin Author

Two Eastern Cape officials have resigned over separate cases of voting irregularities in the province.

The IEC says that in Mthatha, a deputy presiding officer at the Waterfall Park voting station allowed 42 voters to vote although they were not approved for special votes on Monday.

In Mbhashe municipality, a presiding officer resigned after party agents saw her accepting a t-shirt from a political party.

Meanwhile: the Electoral Court has ruled that the Democratic Alliance's sms stating that President Jacob Zuma stole public money to build his Nkandla home was based on false
information.

The ANC had appealed against an earlier court ruling that the DA sms was fair comment.

The judgment directed the DA to retract the sms by sending out another sms through a bulk short message service to some 1.5 million recipients of the first sms.

The DA has indicated it will appeal the ruling.