{"id":190586,"date":"2017-08-06T07:31:19","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T05:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=190586"},"modified":"2017-08-06T07:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T05:44:34","slug":"why-theres-still-no-decision-from-mbete-on-the-secret-ballot-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/190586\/why-theres-still-no-decision-from-mbete-on-the-secret-ballot-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Why there&#8217;s still no decision from Mbete on the secret ballot: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete will likely be breaking a few promises surrounding the secret ballot this coming Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/sunday-times\/news\/2017-08-05-baleka-mbete-speaks-out-on-secret-ballot-for-the-first-time\/\">Sunday Times<\/a>,<\/strong>\u00a0Mbete said she is still agonising over what to do with the vote, but denied that she was employing delaying tactics to avoid a possible court challenge by opposition parties.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t wish to be me, it\u2019s a difficult place to be&#8230;It\u2019s what Sotho people call <em>kgomo ya moshate<\/em> [damned if you do, damned if you don\u2019t],\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the Constitutional Court finding that only Mbete had the power to allow a secret ballot, opposition parties have already indicated they will take her to court if she refuses to do so.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Mbete may have to go back on her own word after she promised a secret ballot if given the power to do so by the Constitutional Court &#8211; this is because, like any ANC MP on the day, party loyalty will be a factor in her decision, the paper said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mbete is also said to have presidential ambitions herself \u00a0&#8211; and a successful no confidence vote would result in her automatically immediately becoming president for up to 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>Mbete said she was still consulting her senior counsel on what to do and would announce her decision on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>She said she would not be \u201cbullied\u201d by opposition parties into making a hasty decision and said they should stop abusing her.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/189956\/the-ancs-plan-to-cut-9-provinces-down-to-6-slammed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The ANC\u2019s plan to cut 9 provinces down to 6 slammed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete will likely be breaking a few promises surrounding the secret ballot this coming Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":93713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-190586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190586"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190624,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190586\/revisions\/190624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}