Former MK Party members set to make urgent court application challenging their ousting
Ten recently ousted MK Party members want the court to stop Parliament from swearing in their replacements.
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JOHANNESBURG - Recently ousted uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party members are set to make an urgent court application on Wednesday.
They want the court to stop Parliament from swearing in their replacements.
The 10 former MK Party members are challenging their ousting from the party and their seats in Parliament.
The application will be filed at the Western Cape High Court on Wednesday morning.
The former members have two court applications. The first one says that their memberships were unlawfully terminated, and the second says that the party did not follow proper protocol in removing them from Parliament.
They claim that their resignations were fabricated to make space for Floyd Shivambu and other incoming Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) members.
The applicants say that their termination of membership from the MK party was inconsistent with the organisation’s draft constitution.
In their court papers, all applicants say they quit their jobs prior to joining Parliament, and as breadwinners of their respective families, they are owed procedural fairness.