This was revealed last week by the Mail & Guardian following the Constitutional Court’s dismissal of an application by government to appeal a ruling that the report be handed over. The decision is the final chapter in a five-year battle – and at least five court cases by lawyers for the M&G – to gain access to the report.
The Court on Friday dismissed a request by government to appeal the ruling. The Supreme Court of Appeal had dismissed, with costs, the attempt by the Presidency to appeal the order by Gauteng High Court Judge Joseph Raulinga that it should hand over the Khampepe report to the newspaper.
The judgment has been described as “a resounding victory for guaranteeing the rights of access to information”. The 27-page document found the actual running of the three-day voting process, excluding delays in urban areas Harare and Chitungwiza, to have complied with the legislative requirements and to have been free of violence and apparent ballot tampering.
But the judges weighed that against pre-election activities, including intimidation and the deaths of 107 mainly opposition members, lengthy legal battles to change laws in favour of Zanu (PF), largely around citizenship and the reduction of polling stations in urban areas, where the strongest opposition party the MDC had its largest support base.
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just as we all suspected , elections were stolen yet again and SA allowed it to happen. makes you wonder what SA got in return for helping bob to steal the elections.
Now that the report has been exposed to the public 12yrs later what do they expect to happen? The current ruling to handover power to the rightul rulers? They should just flush their report down their drains, who needs it!
Thanks for such a knowledgeable post.
Thanks for such a knowledgeable post.