Judges Jody Kollapen, Sharise Weiner and Edwin Molahleli ruled on Friday morning that Magashule's argument had no merit.
A full bench of the high court in Johannesburg has dismissed suspended ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule's application to overturn his suspension.
They found that the ANC's constitution is consistent with that of the country and the decision to suspend Magashule was effected"in terms of the party's constitution and was precautionary in nature and complied with laws on precautionary suspensions".governing party, its president Cyril Ramaphosa and deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte to court to court in a bid to have his suspension overturned.
“On this score we therefore conclude that the principles of natural justice… were observed prior to his suspension,” Kollapen said while delivering the judgment. “It’s largely left to the ANC to best regulate its internal function, this is what all members of the ANC sign on to when they elect to be part of the ANC and this is the glue as it were, that binds them together,” said Kollapen.
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