DA's claim that the Western Cape High Court 'vindicates' them is false
26 April 2019
The DA's response to the judgment in the Western Cape High Court today that they were "vindicated" is factually false.
This morning the judge did not hear any argument. He did not issue a judgment on the urgency or the merits of the application. Instead he postponed the hearing, indefinitely, on the basis that he believed it would be best ventilated in the Electoral Court.
However, the judge was very definitive in his judgment when he said that the Electoral Commission was a Chapter 9 institution created by our Constitution to protect free and fair elections – the cornerstone of democracy – and that the Electoral Commission had found, as a matter of fact, that the DA was publishing false information.
That finding and the directive of the Electoral Commission still stands.