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  "title": "Mbalula fails to secure final interdict as court orders oral evidence on vote-buying claims",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/mbalula-fails-to-secure-final-interdict-as-court-orders-oral-evidence",
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  "published": "2026-10-05T08:55:00.000Z",
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  "summary": "The Johannesburg High Court has ordered oral evidence in Fikile Mbalula’s defamation case against Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma over allegations of vote-buying at the ANC’s 2022 conference.",
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