South Africa
Patricia De Lille to square off with DA in court on Friday─── 13:20 Wed, 24 Apr 2019
The high court in Cape Town today postponed to Friday an application by Good party leader Patricia de Lille for an interdict against the DA in a bid to compel the party to stop telling voters she was fired as Cape Town mayor last year.
De Lille approached the court after the DA refused to apologise to her for spreading falsehoods, as per an order of the Electoral Commission of South Africa last week. The IEC ordered the DA to apologise to its former member, setting a deadline of three days for the party to do so publicly, for telling potential voters during telecanvassing ahead of the May 8 elections that De Lille was fired from her position as Cape Town mayor.
De Lille resigned from her position last year following a protracted legal battle with the DA.
The DA said it would not apologise as it believed the IEC overstepped and that only a court could order it to apologise. The DA has applied to the Electoral Court to review the IEC's ruling.
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