ANC goes to court to get secret ballot vote against Herman Mashaba allowed
The bid by the ANC to unseat Herman Mashaba has now moved to the courts. The party is insistent that a vote against Mashaba be held by secret ballot, following the precedent set by National Assembly speaker Baleka Mbete in the motion of no confidence vote against President Jacob Zuma. The ANC in Johannesburg has filed an urgent application in the High Court in Johannesburg to have the court nullify the earlier decision not to table the motions of no confidence in Mashaba and speaker Vasco da Gama. This follows a letter of demand sent to Da Gama on Wednesday last week, in which the ANC threatened to go to court on the matter, if he did not give written confirmation by Thursday this week that the two motions would be tabled.
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