CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA
Case CCT 109/12
In the matter between:
MPHO RAMAKATSA - First Applicant
TUMISO MBETHE - Second Applicant
MAJORO MPURU - Third Applicant
ELISHA MBAGULA - Fourth Applicant
CECILIA CHAKA - Fifth Applicant
NTSHIWA MOROLLOANE - Sixth Applicant
and
ELIAS MAGASHULE - First Respondent
THABO MANYONI - Second Respondent
WILLIAM BULWANA - Third Respondent
MAMIKI QABATHE - Fourth Respondent
MSEBENZI ZWANE - Fifth Respondent
TATE MAKGOE - Sixth Respondent
BUTANA KHOMPELA - Seventh Respondent
OLLY MLAMLELI - Eighth Respondent
SISI MABE - Ninth Respondent
SAM MASHINENE - Tenth Respondent
FEZI NGUMBENTOMBI - Eleventh Respondent
MALEWATLE NTHEDI - Twelfth Respondent
SEBENZILE NGANGELIZWE - Thirteenth Respondent
MANANA TLAKE - Fourteenth Respondent
SISI NTOMBELA - Fifteenth Respondent
MANANA SECHOARA - Sixteenth Respondent
SARAH MOLELEKI - Seventeenth Respondent
MADALA NTOMBELA - Eighteenth Respondent
JACK MATUTLE - Nineteenth Respondent
MEGGIE SOTYU - Twentieth Respondent
MATHABO LEETO - Twenty-First Respondent
JONAS RAMOGOASE - Twenty-Second Respondent
GERMAN RAMATHEBANE - Twenty-Third Respondent
MAX MOSHODI - Twenty-Fourth Respondent
MADIRO MOGOPODI - Twenty-Fifth Respondent
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS - Twenty-Sixth Respondent
ORDER DATED 14 DECEMBER 2012
CORAM: Moseneke DCJ, Jafta J, Khampepe J, Nkabinde J, Skweyiya J, Van der Westhuizen J and Zondo J. (Mogoeng CJ, Froneman J and Yacoob J dissenting)
Having heard counsel for the applicants, the 1st to 25th respondents and the 26th respondent, the following order is made:
1. The appeal is upheld.
2. The order of the High Court dismissing the application is set aside.
3. The provincial elective conference of Free State province of the African National Congress held at Parys on 21 - 23 June 2012 and its decisions and resolutions are declared unlawful and invalid.
4. There is no order as to costs.
MS STANDER
SENIOR REGISTRAR
CONSTITUTIONAL COURT
TO: BEZUIDENHOUTS ATTORNEYS
Applicants' Attorneys
104 Kellner Street
Wesdene
BLOEMFONTEIN
c/o: RAMUSHU MASHILE TWALA INC
2nd Floor, Block 2
Liberty Life Office Park
171 Katherine Street
Strathavon
SANDTON
AND TO: CHARLES VERTUE
First to Twenty-Fifth Respondents' Attorneys
Gous Vertue & Associates Inc.
Suite 8, Preller Square Centre
Graaff Reinet Street
Dan Pienaar
BLOEMFONTEIN
AND TO: BOMELAS ATTORNEYS
Twenty-Sixth Respondent's Attorneys
Office Park 2
President Reitz Street
Westdene
BLOEMFONTEIN
Issued by the Constitutional Court, December 14 2012
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