Central SA
#ANCvsANC: Newly elected PEC dragged to court─── LUCKY NKUYANE 13:16 Mon, 22 Aug 2022
The North West ANC’s newly elected Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) has been served with papers in a civil litigation matter by a group of disgruntled ANC members.
Unhappy party members want the recent 9th provincial conference, which saw the former Member of Parliament (MP), Nono Maloyi, emerging as the chairperson of the committee, to be declared unlawful, invalid, and of no force or effect.
This is a different group of unhappy party members who took the ANC to court after the first group, which included a former Dr Kenneth Kaunda Regional Secretary, Lopang Rothman, took the party to court the night before the conference. This case against the new PEC is set to be scheduled in the North West High Court in Mahikeng on Thursday as an urgent application.
The current premier, Bushy Maape, is amongst those who lost to Maloyi for the position of chairperson during the conference. Maloyi beat Maape with a margin of 76 votes as he consolidated 370 votes whilst Maape only received 294 votes.
In court papers before the High Court, the group wants the ANC to be stopped from further continuing and concluding its 9th Provincial Conference, which is scheduled for 26 - 28 August. They also want the ANC to be ordered to appoint an interim structure in terms of the ANC’s constitution. Another group of ANC members interdicted the voting powers of the ANC’s Interim Provincial Committee (IPC) after it found that its time in office had lapsed.
A few weeks ago - the Friday night before the conference - a High Court judge, Frances Maria Magrietha Snyman, ruled that at least 20 members of the ANC's temporary structure, called the Interim Provincial Committee (IPC), could not part take in the voting processes of the conference. The judge then ordered the IPC as the respondent in the matter to pay the cost of the application.
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The newly elected PEC is the first structure to be elected in four years after the previous structure, chaired by former Premier Supra Mahumapelo, was disbanded by the ANC’s National Executive Committee (NEC). Its disbandment followed after Mahumapelo was asked to step down as the chairperson following sporadic violent protests in cities like Mahikeng and Klerksdorp, among others.
