The Operation Dudula Movement has accused the Electoral Court of bias in handling its case against the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC).
The party failed to meet the submission deadline, resulting in their exclusion from the national ballot. It approached the court, which has reserved judgment. This was after the movement blamed the commission for what it said was a technical glitch. Operation Dudula may seek leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court, depending on the judgment.
Zandile Dabula, the movement’s secretary-general, says, “The IEC will probably have to postpone the elections because they cannot print the ballot paper while our case is still in the Constitutional Court. We tried, for Operation Dudula specifically, to get help from their side, but they failed… Everything is there, all the proof is there that we tried to get help from them but they still dismissed our case. So we are hoping that we are going to get justice in the Constitutional Court.”
