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Barring MK from polls promises chaos

EXPLOSIVE

Keeping uMkhonto weSizwe off the South African ballot paper is no different than trying to exclude Donald Trump from the US presidential election – and at least as potentially explosive.

If at all possible, it is always better for electoral disputes to be settled by voters in a polling booth, rather than by judges in a court. It’s an uncontroversial historical reality that using legal stratagems to prevent a significant portion of the population from expressing their electoral preferences guarantees a world of future pain, chaos and uprising.

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