Court bid to block ANC's Limpopo conference
A group of disgruntled African National Congress (ANC) members will head to court on Saturday to prevent the party's elective conference in Limpopo from going ahead.
The group believes the processes in the run-up to the conference were unlawful.
The ANC members' legal representative, Tumi Mokoena, says the court is expected to hear the case on Saturday morning even though the registration of delegated in Polokwane have already started,
"The problem with that conference is that it is being hosted by a REC (regional executive committee) and PEC (provincial executive committee) whose terms have long lapsed in contravention with the ANC constitution. The members are simply holding the ANC to its constitution."
On Thursday, the national leadership of the ANC gave the provincial party the go-ahead for the conference, saying all issues must be raised internally.
But Mokoena says they have exhausted all internal avenues.
"The court is unlikely to say it is an internal matter. You must remember that the right of members to participate in politics or within an organisation affect their right to free political activity because the leadership of the country emanates from the leadership of political parties.
"So internal processes of political parties do ultimately affect the populace."
If the interdict succeeds the more than 1000 delegates at the conference will have to pack their bags and go home.