ANC told it cannot hold its KZN elective conference
Pietermartizburg High court grants an eleventh-hour court challenge to stop the conference
The ANC has been told that it may not hold its controversy-riddled KwaZulu-Natal provincial elective conference, scheduled to take place this weekend. An 11th-hour court challenge to stop the conference was granted in the Pietermartizburg High court on Friday. Disgruntled ANC members — who claim to represent 44 branches out of 88 in the troubled Moses Mabhida region — rushed to court on Friday afternoon to apply for an urgent interdict to stop the three-day conference from going ahead. By Friday afternoon, hundreds of delegates had already started streaming into the University of Zululand‚ after the party's national executive committee (NEC) announced at the end of May that it “had gone beyond the minimum requirements” prescribed in its constitution for the provincial elective conference to proceed. Absent, however, from Zululand, was ANC provincial task-team co-ordinator Sihle Zikala — who has been tipped to be chairman of the party in the province if the unity slate prevailed — wh...
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