By OBAKENG MAJE
The aggrieved ANC members in North West, who took the ruling party to court over alleged blemished processes displayed during the provincial elective conference, that was held in Rustenburg a few months ago, are adamant that, the court will rule in their favour.
One of the applicants, Letlhogonolo Moloko from Matlosana said they were allegedly denied access into the vicinity, where the elective conference was held, even though they were voting delegates.
The case was listened to by the North West High Court in Mahikeng on Friday and postponed until Tuesday for judgement. The ANC Member of Parliament (MP), Kenny Morolong lashed out at the ANC Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) and called it fraudulent.
“We came here today to confirm what we already know that, this PEC is fraudulent and fictitious. We would not accept any wrongdoings within the ANC. We grew up in the ANC and we are more senior than many people who are in that PEC.
“So, we are not going to be afraid to confront injustice and we do not need any court of law to do that. The provincial elective conference was fictitious by all measure and we are not going to be intimidated by anybody,” he said.
Morolong further said they do not care whether the PEC charges them or not because there is nothing that the PEC can do that they have already not done to the ANC. He added that, the ANC PEC members have harmed and divided the ANC because they are assisted by ‘criminals’.
“Some of them are members of the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC). However, we are not afraid of them and we will even tell them at the ANC national elective conference that, they have divided this province even further.
“We will not even be surprised if some of them were bought to do that, because we know those characters. They are very dodgy and corrupt, however, comrades, some of us are undeterred,” said Morolong.
He also called for unity and lauded those who took ‘gigantic’ steps to go to court. Morolong said the unity of the ANC is synchronised and there were some attempts to bribe applicants.
“There is an audio clip that is circulating on social media platforms, where some of them tried to buy the applicants. If they think the elections were credible, why would they attempt to buy and intimidate the applicants? I can almost guarantee you that, victory is certain on 6 December 2022,” said Morolong.
However, ANC provincial spokesperson, Tumelo Maruping said they are unshaken by these allegations.
“Look, as the ANC PEC, we are still confident that the verdict will be in our favour. We have presented our case, but without getting into its merit, we will wait for the verdict on 6 December 2022 and respond accordingly.
“We will not dwell too much on the allegations making rounds on various social media platforms because we do not know where they originate.”
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