It is true that the South Gauteng High Court dismissed comrade Masoga's urgent application today with costs. The basis for the court to dismiss this urgent application is that initially, comrade Masoga withdrew his application for the court to interdict the Ancyl from proceeding with the discredited DC hearing against him. This initial withdrawal was done in order to allow the intrvention by the ANC so that the impasse can be resolved politically as promised by the ANC. We therefore wish to place it on record that we do not regret the decision to initially withdraw the high court application so that we allow the ANC space to intervene.
However, what disturbed us was the clear disregard of the ANC intervention by the Ancyl NEC as they announced their resolve to continue with the DC hearing against comrade Masoga. This was done despite the plea by the ANC to ensure this matter is resolved politically as the DC hearing was a discredited process. True to their arrogance and as expected, the DC hearing continued and found comrade Masoga guilty on one several counts. This situation has brought to light new realities as comrade Masoga is now a convicted man in the books of the Ancyl DC. In view of this new situation and the rejected intervention of the ANC by the Ancyl, we are left with no option but to challenge the conviction through the courts of law. This option is regretable but necessary. It is essential we emphasise the point that had we not withdrew the application to allow for ANC intervention, the discredited and malicious DC hearing would have been successfully interdicted. We believe so based on the water-tight case we have against this DC hearing, and the desperation displayed by the same DC to have the court application withdrawn. We are still confident that the court application we are about to make seeking the court to set aside the conviction of comrade Masoga by the DC will be successful, given the flagrant violation of Masoga's right to a fair and just hearing. No amount of lies and propaganda dispatched to media by Floyd Shivambu and company will detract us from exposing the truth. The latest developments to convict comrade Masoga has made us even more determined than ever. Floyd Shivhambu, as usual, in a flawed statement underscored our belief that his ignorance of the legal process knows no boundaries. He claims that the application has been dismissed and we must be fully aware that no such thing has occured. What has happened is that the court has dismissed a part of the case on the grounds that it is not urgent and can be dealt with in due course. -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] .
