Ten ousted uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party parliamentarians have failed to reach a settlement agreement with the party in a court battle.
The 10 former MPs are part of a larger group of 18 MK party members expelled by the party last month.
On Tuesday, the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town heard the urgent application filed by the former MK party members of parliament .During proceedings, Advocate Simba Chitando, representing the applicants, argued that Zuma contradicted himself in his court papers opposing the former MK party MPs’ application.“Former president Zuma’s answering affidavit says two different things. He says that they were never members of the MK party and he also says that he used his powers to remove them.
The lawyer also mentioned that National Assembly Speaker Thoko Didiza had warned the former MPs that without an interdict, their positions could be filled and this would render the review application “pointless”.
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