Suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has taken direct aim at the North Gauteng judges who found against him in his battle with his own organisation, vigorously accusing them of being biased in favour of President Ramaphosa and the governing party
Suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has taken direct aim at the North Gauteng judges who found against him in his battle with his own organisation, vigorously accusing them of being biased in favour of President Cyril Ramaphosa and the governing party.
In July, Magashule suffered a huge blow when the high court ruled that the ANC constitution was consistent with that of the country and that the decision to suspend him had been effected in terms of the ANC constitution. He was also denied the right to appeal, hence his taking the matter to a higher court.
His other arguments related to the fact that Ramaphosa and the ANC had never asked for condonation after filing papers late, but the judges had granted it anyway. The judges also had no business refuting that the ANC had factional challenges, he said. “The candid acknowledgment of the court that it may have erred in characterising [my] suspension as ‘precautionary’ is in itself sufficient to grant the application for leave to appeal, given the pivotal and central nature played by that characterisation to the entire judgment. In the very likely event of that characterisation being erroneous, the entire edifice of the judgment would fall asunder,” said Magashule.
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