The outcome of the national and provincial elections is on a knife edge, with the Umkhonto weSizwe party (MKP) and 25 others calling on the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) to delay the result while dealing with their claims of vote rigging.
MKP leader Jacob Zuma who made a dramatic entrance to the Result Operation Centre (ROC) in Johannesburg shortly before the IEC was due to brief the media threw down the gauntlet to the elections authority, saying there would be no result before their objections were heard.
Zuma said that there would be trouble if a result was declared before his party and others were satisfied that their grievances had been given a hearing and that those responsible should not stand in our way.
Zuma warned the IEC not to rush the parties and said that to do so would provoke the anger among the supporters of MK.
This after the IEC had already given the parties an extension until 6pm on Saturday to submit their complaints and other parties including the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) had accepted the outcome.
