KZN ANC rebels to suffer 'irreparable harm', judge finds
15 December 2017
Pietermaritzburg – KwaZulu-Natal ANC members, who challenged the results of the party’s 2015 provincial conference and won, are likely to suffer harm, the KwaZulu-Natal High Court in Pietermaritzburg ruled on Friday.
"The harm to be suffered by the applicants far outweighs that to be suffered by the first to thirty-seven respondents [PEC] in their capacity as political office bearers, which I do not consider irreplaceable," Judge Rishi Seegobin said.
Seegobin granted an application for leave to appeal, brought by the PEC, which is led by chairperson Sihle Zikalala.
However, he effectively ruled that the PEC would remain dissolved pending the outcome of the appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal and any subsequent appeal to the Constitutional Court.