ANC Secretary-General, Ace Magashule, is gearing up to mount a fierce legal battle in the Johannesburg high court on Thursday and Friday in a desperate bid to overturn his suspension from the party.
Magashule, already at odds with his party for refusing to apologize to ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa, says he is ready to do whatever it takes to duke it out with the party’s top leadership in court to reverse his suspension.
Magashule has launched a court application to challenge his suspension, which happened when he failed to step aside over the corruption charges against him.
He is also expected to ask the court that the party’s interpretation of its 2017 “step-aside” conference resolution be declared invalid and unconstitutional.
Ramaphosa, the party’s deputy Secretary-General Jessie Duarte and the ANC are the first, second and third respondents, respectively.
The matter was initially scheduled to be heard during the first
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