Electoral Court hears MK Party leadership challenge while Zuma is caught napping

The former leader of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party, Jabulani Khumalo, is contesting the leadership of the party in the Electoral Court, sitting in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party says an urgent application against it and its leader, Jacob Zuma, was being heard in the wrong court as a charge of forgery was a criminal case and not a case for the Electoral Commission of South Africa .The dispute centres around the leadership of the MK Party, with allegations of forgery and internal party conflicts being brought before the Electoral Court.

On 7 May, it said it had received another communication from Khumalo on 5 May on behalf of the party, demanding it remove Zuma as its face and president. On Monday, Khumalo's advocate, Mfesane Ka-Siboto, began by saying the case had nothing to do with the elections. This was their evidence that Khumalo did not confer the leadership to Zuma and the second letter was forged.Fifteen minutes into the address by Ka-Siboto, Zuma fell asleep. He was nudged awake by his council who was alerted to his nap by journalists snapping pictures of him on the bench.

Therefore, May added, Khumalo could not ask the court to order the IEC to reinstate him as the party's head.

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