TOM EATON | The IEC saw Zuma’s long game of the Big Lie coming a mile away

The commission won’t let things slide because it knows the 2024 election wasn’t the actual target of misinformation

26 September 2024 - 21:16

The Electoral Commission of South Africa demanding punitive damages from Jacob Zuma’s MK Party will be annoying to the former president, and not only because Mzwanele Manyi will now have to fire up the photocopier and print another 10,000 copies of Zuma’s book to hawk out of the boot of his car. ..

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