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No Love lost as IEC takes Zuma poll eligibility spat to Concourt

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The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) has called for electoral commissioner Janet Love’s head.

This comes as the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) confirmed its intention to challenge Tuesday’s Electoral Court decision which ruled in favour of MKP leader Jacob Zuma as the MKP’s top candidate in the elections.

The Electoral Court upheld Zuma’s appeal against the IEC after it had struck him off the MKP’s candidates list.

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