ANC leadership slams Tshwane members for approaching the courts over regional conference

The African National Congress (ANC) national leadership has slammed its Tshwane members who approached the courts to stop the regional conference, instead of using the party’s internal dispute resolution processes.

Saturday marks day two of the ANC’s 12th greater Tshwane regional conference at the Velmore Hotel in Pretoria, where a new leadership structure is set to be elected.

The conference was almost disrupted following a last-minute court application by some ANC members seeking to interdict the event, over unresolved disputes.

However, the interdict was dismissed.

ANC National Executive Committee member Khumbudzo Ntshavheni said that the party has established mechanisms  to resolve such issues internally.

"Comrades we need to talk, I know the media is here but there are things in the public domain that we cannot run away from. We cannot come from a successful NGC that focus on the renewal of the ANC and we still take each other to court so that a regional conference doesn’t sit. There is organisational processes that are set on resolving our own disputes and we must all live with them.”