A group of ANC Free State supporters of Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa is approaching the High Court in Bloemfontein in a bid to stop the province’s 409 delegates attending the national elective conference. The move comes after the leadership, under Free State chairman Ace Magashule, went ahead with its provincial elective conference in Parys.
If the group succeeds in its application, the ANC’s fifth-biggest province, which is supporting Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, will not be represented at Nasrec when the conference starts on Saturday. The lawyer for the group, Hanno Bekker, said the court application would be lodged first thing on Tuesday morning. The group is asking for the matter to be heard on Thursday just two days before the national elective conference gets under way in Nasrec, Soweto. It also wants the court to nullify the outcomes of the Free State conference, which was expected to end on Monday. "The plan of action is to bring a court application to nullify the confe...
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