A group of disgruntled ANC members took the newly elected ANC’s Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) to court. They want the ANC to be ordered to appoint an interim structure in terms of the ANC’s constitution and to also have the ANC’s planned continuation of its 9th Provincial Conference stopped. The conference is scheduled for 26 to 28 August.

This is a different group of unhappy party members who took the ANC to court after the first group, which included a former Dr Kenneth Kaunda Regional Secretary, Lopang Rothman, took the party to court the night before the conference.

The newly elected chairperson of the PEC is Nono Maloyi, a former Member of Parliament (MP) at the National Assembly (NA) and also a Member of the Provincial Legislature (MPL).

In court papers before the High Court, the group wants the ANC to be stopped from continuing and concluding its 9th Provincial Conference. They also want the ANC to be ordered to appoint an interim structure in terms of the ANC’s constitution. Another group of ANC members interdicted the voting powers of the ANC’s Interim Provincial Committee (IPC) after it found that its time in office had lapsed.

The newly elected PEC is the first structure to be elected in four years after the previous structure, chaired by former Premier Supra Mahumapelo, was disbanded by the ANC’s National Executive Committee (NEC). Its disbandment followed after Mahumapelo was asked to step down as the chairperson following sporadic violent protests in cities like Mahikeng and Klerksdorp, among others.

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