JUDGMENT has been reserved in the case in which suspended ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule is seeking to have his suspension from the party set aside.
Magashule’s legal team, led by Advocate Dali Mpofu SC, tried to nullify the party’s rule 25.70.
Mpofu also asked the court to declare the party’s step aside resolution as unconstitutional and invalid.
Magashule was suspended from the ANC in accordance with section 25.70 of the ANC Constitution.
His legal team argued on Thursday that Magashule’s suspension was a factional purge of Ramaphosa’s opponents within the ANC, arguing that rule 25.7 was an unacceptable narrowing of the resolutions of the party’s 2017 Nasrec conference resolutions.
Magashule is also asking the court to find the suspension letter he issued to party president Cyril Ramaphosa valid.
Magashule’s legal team argued that Section 25.70 “is out of sync with the provisions of both the Constitution of the Republic and
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