ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule has served his party with court papers challenging the constitutionality of its step-aside conference resolution, including the party’s national executive committee (NEC) decision last week to suspend him from his post.
This comes after last week’s NEC decision ordering Magashule to publicly apologise to the ANC for issuing a ‘suspension letter’ to President Cyril Ramaphosa, failing which he could face a disciplinary action.
Magashule was suspended for failing to step aside after he was given 30 days to do so as per the party’s NEC decision.
He faces fraud, theft and corruption charges stemming from an asbestos roofing tender during his tenure as Premier of the Free State Province.
In court papers seen by Inside Politics on Friday, Magashule asks the South Gauteng High Court to declare that the ANC’s step aside rule is unlawful, unconstitutional and invalid.
Magashule also wants the suspension letter he issued
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