Pretoria High Court dismisses Boy Mamabolo’s urgent application
Boy Mamabolo sought to interdict the ANC from finalising nominations and appointments in the final provincial list of candidates for the upcoming national elections.
POLOKWANE – ANC Member of Parliament Boy Mamabolo says he hopes his application to the Pretoria High Court for the ANC Provincial Elective Committee (PEC) to disclose the candidates for this year’s election will be heard before the date of the general election at the end of May.
On Tuesday, the court ruled that his court application lacked urgency and could therefore be heard on a normal basis.
“I am somewhat disappointed, but it’s not a train smash,” he said following the ruling.
Mamabolo earlier sought an urgent court order for the ANC to release raw nomination data from party branches to prove how he did not qualify to be on the 2024 list of candidates up for legislature and parliament.
Read more: ANC’s Boy Mamabolo challenges omission of his name on party list
He argues that the number of branches that nominated him, are sufficient to warrant him featuring on the list.
In court documents that supported his application, Mamabolo said a WhatsApp conversation between himself and a lists committee executive, who advised him to align with a regional leader to be guaranteed a spot on the list, led him to believe he may have been removed from the list unduly as he did not follow this advice.
Read more in this week’s Polokwane Observer.
