FACTION BATTLE
Disgruntled ANC group back in court to nullify Free state conference
Allowing its secretary-general, Ace Magashule, to preside over the disputes in the Free State ahead of its recent elective conference, rendered the entire process "unfair, mala fide, fatally tainted and unlawful", court papers from disgruntled ANC members say. Party members in the province approached the High Court in Bloemfontein on Wednesday again to have the conference declared null and void. Magashule, as secretary-general of the ANC, has to sign off all provincial conferences. He was also ANC Free State chairman, a position he had held since 1992. It was under Magashule’s leadership in the province that the Free State provincial executive committee was barred by the courts from voting at the ANC’s national conferences in 2012 in Mangaung and 2017 at Nasrec. In May, the ANC in the Free State reran its elective conference after the high court, days before the Nasrec conference, set aside the results of the December provincial conference at which Magashule was re-elected chairman....
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