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Angry ANC group to challenge Free State leadership election in court
A disgruntled group plans to ask the courts set aside the provincial elective conference
The ANC could soon face contempt of court charges after it went ahead and elected a new Free State provincial leadership at the weekend. Days before the party’s national conference at Nasrec in 2017, the High Court in Bloemfontein set aside the results of the Free State provincial conference, which had re-elected Ace Magashule as provincial chairman. The court found that the 14 branches that participated at the conference had not been properly constituted and ordered that this to be done before credible provincial elections were held. Only five of the 14 branches have been reconstituted. Yet the provincial elective conference went ahead. Magashule has since moved to the party’s headquarters after being elected secretary-general. But he is said to still have a firm hand in the political affairs of the province, which he has led since 1992. A disgruntled group said on Sunday they would approach the court in a bid to have the weekend’s provincial elective conference set aside again. Ma...
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