Following yet another postponement of the conference due to disputes, members assumed that all complaints would be addressed before a new date could be set, said the applicants.
“When this notice was issued the disputes that were declared were being attended to nationally, by the Task Team appointed by the Third RespondentThe members decried inaction by party top brass, saying letters written over time to the IRC, the IPC and acting secretary-generalOne of the applicants, Malefetsane Selebi, said criminal charges were laid with the police against those purported to have committed fraud at branches.
Their application included the submission of a death certificate, a copy of the identity document belonging to the dead party member, and a branch meeting list showing the forged signature.In a statement on Wednesday, the IRC shrugged off a letter to Mashatile’s office written by provincial coordinator Paseka Nompondo regarding the conference, and another letter in which branches were summoned to party headquarters in Johannesburg.
“The letter that is attributed to the provincial coordinator must, therefore, be understood in the context of a leader of the organisation communicating without a mandate and outside the collective within which he leads.”