Supporters of uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party, former president Jacob Zuma's new party, are gathered outside a court in Johannesburg where Zuma is present, as lawyers debate on whether he will be allowed to appear on the ballot in May elections. Zuma has appealed a decision by electoral officials to bar him from the vote over a 2021 conviction. Addressing his crowd of supporters outside the court, he says: "If a lot of people have said that we want him (Zuma, ed.), who can go against that because we are ruling by the majority rule?" IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES