The party told the Western Cape High Court there wasn’t enough time to vet its candidate lists before they were submitted to the IEC and the disgruntled group should never have found their way to Parliament to begin with.
CAPE TOWN - The uMkhonto weSizwe Party said that ten of its former MPs who want their jobs back were not party members when they were sworn in as parliamentarians in June.
The party told the Western Cape High Court there wasn’t enough time to vet its candidate lists before they were submitted to the Electoral Commission and the disgruntled group should never have found their way to Parliament to begin with.They are asking the court to prevent Parliament from replacing them until their expulsions are verified.
MK Party lawyer, Nikiwe Nyathi, said the court should dismiss this urgent application because the applicants’ membership was terminated. She said that their inclusion on the MK Party’s candidate list was both improper and irregular and done without consultation by the party’s former acting secretary-general.She said that the membership of the affected MPs was terminated two days before their swearing-in in Parliament in June.She’s asking the court for a punitive costs order, saying the applicants knew their membership had been terminated two months ago.
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