ADVOCATE Dali Mpofu SC, who is representing suspended ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule, told the Johannesburg High Court on Thursday that it was unconstitutional of the ANC to suspend his client from his position and party activities.
Magashule has filed an application in the Johannesburg High Court to have his suspension from the party reversed.
Magashule’s core argument is that the “step aside” rule goes against both the party’s constitution and the country’s.
Mpofu also raised several concerns in arguments before the court in the case proper between Magashule against ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa, Deputy Secretary-General Jessie Duarte and the third respondent, the ANC.
Mpofu said his legal team was of the view that the litigants in this matter [the respondents: Ramaphosa, Duarte and the ANC] seem to think there are different rules for different people, in terms of treatment toward and from the court.
“We have here a situation
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