There were scenes of jubilation outside the Pietermaritzburg High Court on Tuesday following its ruling that the KwaZulu-Natal provincial African National Congress (ANC) elective conference in November 2015 was unlawful.
In that conference, then ANC chairperson, Senzo Mchunu, was defeated by then provincial secretary Sihle Zikalala and it paved the way for Mchunu’s subsequent removal as KZN Premier in 2016.
Some MECs were also removed along with Mchunu in what was seen as a purge.
Reading the decision, Judge Jerome Dube set aside the conference and its outcomes and ordered Zikalala to pay the costs.
Many ANC members, some of them Members of the Provincial Legislature, as well as mayors, greeted the news with jubilation, saying they had been vindicated.
– African News Agency (ANA)
