ANC takes Zuma's party to court!

THE ANC wants uMkhonto Wesizwe party (MK) to be deregistered by the Electoral Commission (IEC).

The ruling party has taken the matter to the Bloemfontein Electoral Court and it is expected to be heard on Tuesday, 19 March.

The ANC argues that there were procedural flaws in the way MK was registered.

ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula tweeted during the weekend that the party was ready for the court case.

“You don’t go to court without being confident. South Africa and the world know MK belongs to the ANC. What IEC has done we don’t agree, and it will be tested in court,” he said.

He said the party was bringing another court case against MK that will look into the patent issue.

ANC has been against the usage of the name Umkhonto Wesizwe and the logo of MK party claiming they belonged to it.

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Mbalula said former president Jacob Zuma and his supporters must be ready for engagement on the logo matter.

He said Zuma mobilised members of the ANC against the movement and history will remember him for putting the ANC in difficult situation.

Zuma launched MK party in December 2023. Umkhonto weSizwe was an ANC armed struggle that was disbanded on 16 December 1993, exactly 30 years before its namesake political party was formed.

MK Youth League president Bonginkosi Khanyile said they were ready for the court case.

He told a media briefing last week: "Now that you smell defeat, you take us to court because you know that Chief Justice Raymond Zondo is not only a spy, but a scammer, a fraud lawyer and wants to infiltrate and change the Constitution to remove us from the ballot."

Legal analyst Reitumetse Phiri told SABC on Monday, 19 March, that the case is going to be difficult for ANC to prove.

“One of the reasons that it’s going to be difficult for the ANC is that it didn’t make proper use of the appeal mechanisms and the objection mechanisms in the Electoral Commission Act. It didn’t object to Umkhonto Wesizwe Party’s application to be registered as a political party when it had the ability to do so,” said Phiri.