Former president Jacob Zuma at the Electoral Court sitting in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg. (Luba Lesolle/Gallo Images)
After weeks of an unrelenting campaign to try to discredit the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC), former president Jacob Zuma’s MK Party dropped its court application related to untested allegations of widespread voter fraud.
In a notice issued on Wednesday, the MK Party said it was withdrawing its application at the Electoral Court to challenge the election results.
The MK Party’s “experts” are still collating evidence of vote-rigging, the party’s lawyer said in a letter to the IEC’s legal team.
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