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A group of expelled ANC councillors in Mangaung, Free State, are planning to take on their former political party in the forthcoming by-elections under the banner Mangaung Seven.
When newly elected Mangaung mayor Papi Mokoena was scheduled to announce members of his mayoral committee, the ANC in the Free State successfully interdicted him from occupying the higher office.
The Free State High Court in Bloemfontein on Wednesday morning started hearing an urgent application by the African National Congress (ANC) to challenge a Mangaung council sitting that resulted in Afrikan Alliance for Social Democrats president Papi Mokoena being elected mayor of the troubled municipality. Besides petitioning the court to declare the 14 April council sitting unlawful, the ANC has also asked the court to interdict and restrain Mokoena from performing any mayoral acts.
The Free State High Court in Bloemfontein is hearing an urgent application by the ANC to challenge a Mangaung council sitting that resulted in Afrikan Alliance for Social Democrats president Papi Mokoena being elected mayor.
The ANC is testing the political election of a brand-new Mangaung mayor in court. The ANC is testing