The ANC provincial spokesperson, Thabo Meeko, says ill-discipline is dangerous for the ANC. He says, given the court bid by the group, the ANC, therefore, reserves a right to defend itself. 

Former MEC for Public Works, Sekhopi Malebo, previously told OFM News that the PEC is occupying the office of the PEC not in accordance with the constitution of the ANC, and do not enjoy the support, or the legitimacy of ANC procedural protocols to convene a conference. 

Meeko, however, says the group has an anti-ANC perception. “You do not expect members of the ANC to behave in that manner. You are going to court to disorganise the ANC and make it [difficult] to service its people because you have your own anti-ANC perception that certain people belong to individuals. All of us are members of the ANC and the constitution of the ANC and the code of conduct it defines that we must conduct ourselves [in a proper way] to ensure that the ANC programme is being implemented,” he adds.

A group of ANC members wants the SCA to overturn the 2018 Free State High Court judgment which dismissed their bid to have the ANC PEC nullified and declared unconstitutional. The group argues that that the Branch General Meetings (BGMs) were illegally constituted because those who attended the Ilanga Estate conference were those from the nullified 2017 Nasrec delegation, which emanated from the Parys conference. But whilst delivering a judgment in 2018, the High Court Judge Fouché Jordaan said he did not believe the applicants had a solid case against the PEC and believed that they made the court bid to score political points within their faction.

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