{"id":22884,"date":"2026-01-26T07:44:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-waiting-on-report-on-the-discovery-of-ballot-papers-on-a-private-house\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:47","slug":"sa-president-waiting-on-report-on-the-discovery-of-ballot-papers-on-a-private-house","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-president-waiting-on-report-on-the-discovery-of-ballot-papers-on-a-private-house\/","title":{"rendered":"SA President waiting on report on the discovery of ballot papers on a private house\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa (SA) and\u00a0African National Congress (ANC) President Cyril Ramaphosa told the SA Broadcasting Corporation that he&#8217;s waiting for a\u00a0detailed report on the discovery of alleged ballot papers\u00a0from the party&#8217;s regional conference in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>Ballot boxes were found in a house in Pretoria, Gauteng Province<\/p>\n<p>The police and the party received complaints that the conference was rigged.<\/p>\n<p>Complaints were also raised with the Gauteng Provincial Task Team Co-ordinator, Hope Papo, from former regional Chairperson, Dada Morero, concerning conflicts of Interest and Procedural Violations by the Election Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in his closing address on the last day of the Lekgotla, Ramaphosa warned that incompetence on the part of ANC deployees would be dealt with.<\/p>\n<p>Ballot papers believed to be from the ANC&#8217;s regional conference that took place in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/93ojkz8ib8s?si=ES3hOfYl0_59z2DZ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20717,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-22884","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Report on the discovery of alleged ballot papers\u00a0from ANC's regional conference","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26032,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22884\/revisions\/26032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}