MBOMBELA – The Save the ANC Mpumalanga campaign says it has put its planned court action to try and stop the provincial general council (PGC) from taking place in October, on hold.
Last week the grouping threatened to approach the court to stop council, where provincial chairman Mr David Mabuza will seek a third term. But yesterday the organiser of the movement, Mr Sipho Monareng, said the party’s national executive committee had responded to their grievances, and they will meet today to have these addressed.
In the meantime the planned court action is on hold. The Save the ANC Mpumalanga campaign was established in March in response to the selection of voting delegates from branches.
They claim members have been removed from registers to prevent their participation in regional conferences and that branches made decisions at “meetings” which never took place.
To make their voices heard, the grouping marched on the provincial offices in July, to hand a memorandum of their grievances to the provincial executive committee (PEC), which refused to accept it, before it took the matter up with the NEC. When Luthuli House initially failed to respond, they announced they would take the matter to court.
They want to prevent the PGC on the grounds that the decisions taken for the chairman to serve a third term at the general council earlier this year, and moving the PGC up from March 2016, were invalid as they were taken by “delegates” not mandated by the branch.
Monareng is confident the meeting with the NEC will be a success.
“Having them disband the PEC is the extreme. We will be happy if they can come up with other solutions like stopping the PGC, having the gatekeeping in the PEC come to an end, and opening participation in the ANC to all.”
