Central SA
#ANCvsANC: Disgruntled group's court application dealt a blow─── LUCKY NKUYANE 08:27 Fri, 26 Aug 2022
A court application by a group of disgruntled ANC members against the newly elected ANC’s Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) was dealt a blow in the North West High Court.
On Thursday afternoon, a High Court judge struck the application, which was made on an urgent basis, off the roll.
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They dragged the party to court, seeking an order to compel the party to appoint an interim structure in terms of the ANC’s constitution and to also have the ANC’s planned continuation of its 9th Provincial Conference stopped.
The conference is scheduled for 26 to 28 August. Unhappy party members also wanted 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.
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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.
