The request for suspension of the ANC Gauteng conference was removed from the list of courts for emergency

The ANC can go ahead with its elective conference this weekend, after a request from several disgruntled members of Ekurhuleni has been removed from the Southern High Court Gauteng in Johannesburg.

The members, who represent 13 branches of the Ekurhuleni region, approached the court to stop the provincial conference until their complaints were resolved.

But Judge Edwin Molahlehi concluded that the case was urgently denied, claiming that the petitioners were taking too long to appear in court.

Lawyer Deon Pool, who represented disgruntled members of the ANC, told News24 that although the case was settled, the merits of the case could still to be debated and a request for review was ongoing. 19659005] Guarding at General Branch Meetings

Meanwhile, the ANC in Gauteng confirmed earlier this week that it had received notice to take the party to court during the course of the Sedibeng Regional Conference. They want the High Court to declare null and void the regional conference that took place earlier this month.

Five regions of the province have successfully held regional conferences this month as a result of a decision by the province to postpone events until all issues are resolved. resolved. Even members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) have been invited to participate in dispute resolution.

Some party members complained about the manipulation of process and control at Branch General Meetings, where delegates were elected to represent sections at the regional conference.

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Motalatale Modiba, spokesman for the ANC Gauteng, said:" We are pleased that the court ruled in our favor. The question has never been urgent, but simply an attempt to derail the provincial conference, which sends a strong message that our courts will not be used to settle internal affairs.

Expressing shortly after the decision The ANC National Spokesperson, Pule Mabe, said that the judgment "inspires the confidence" of the members.

"We must ask ourselves who is actively involved in financing a counterrevolutionary project to liquidate the ANC because many of those who bring the ANC to justice as has been proven at Limpopo are people who are always counting on … or an electronic wallet for not having the means to pay for superior advice, "he said.

"Dirty Money"

He stated that the courts should deal with serious crimes.

President Ekurhuleni Mzwadile Masina also told reporters that the NEC should take further action and establish where party members received money to pay a lawyer.

"We, as the structure of the ANC, do not have money to pay court costs, it is important to establish where it comes from. Money because we suspect that dirty money ends up in our structures ". .

About 1,600 delegates from five regions of Gauteng were to attend the 13th Provincial Electoral Conference, to be held in Irene, Pretoria.