Dlamini-Zuma’s Free State victory in doubt
Gathering to elect new executive committee for the province not allowed to go ahead until errant provincial branch meetings are rerun
Thabo Manyoni, the deputy chairman of the ANC in the Free State, has indicated that the outcome of the provincial general council in which Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was nominated for the position of president could be challenged. Manyoni welcomed on Wednesday the outcome of a court battle in Bloemfontein in which 29 branch general meetings were declared unlawful, irregular and unconstitutional. The court ordered that the provincial conference, at which Manyoni was set to oppose longstanding ANC Free State chairman Ace Magashule at the weekend, be postponed until the meetings had been rerun. Manyoni and his supporters did not attend Tuesday’s provincial general council in Parys. "We reject in the strongest terms the bogus 24-hour-notice [council] held in Parys … and attended by some of the delegates representing the branches that were nullified by the appeals committee of the [national executive council] and disassociate ourselves with all the decisions taken there," Manyoni said.
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