ANC back in court for KZN leadership battle judgment
Judgment was reserved at the last sitting.
The African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal will be going head to head with opposing members of the party at the Pietermaritzburg High Court today.
Five ANC councillors took the provincial party leadership to court in May last year to declare the legitimacy of KwaZulu-Natal’s 8th provincial elective conference, held in November 2015, null and void.
The case is multifaceted, but much of it deals with alleged irregularities in the arrangement, hosting and auditing of the November 2015 conference.
The case was brought before the court against the ANC’s sitting provincial executive committee (PEC) by members from 43 so-called rebel branches that want the conference declared illegal and a rerun to be held.
The repercussions of the case go beyond the province, which has the largest ANC support base countrywide. ANC KZN chairman Sihle Zikalala, who was present in court during the last sitting, leads the current PEC.
Under Zikalala’s leadership, the province is firmly backing former African Union Commission chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to lead the party after its December 2017 national elective conference.
The rebels, whose de facto leader is believed to be Senzo Mchunu, are backing Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Mchunu lost to Zikalala at the disputed conference.
– Additional reporting African News Agency
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