Jabulani Khumalo files urgent court application to be reinstated as MK's top MP

Source: EWN Traffic
Author: Lindsay Dentlinger

CAPE TOWN - UMkhonto weSizwe's expelled founder, Jabulani Khumalo, is not planning on losing his seat in Parliament without a fight.

His lawyer has confirmed an urgent application is being filed in the Western Cape High Court on Tuesday to have Khumalo reinstated as the party's number one MP and to be sworn in on Friday.

This after Parliament indicated in a letter that he'd been removed from the candidates' list after the MK Party informed the legislature that he was no longer a member.

While the MK Party threatens to interdict Friday's first sitting of Parliament, its founding member is waging a separate legal battle against the party.

Khumalo, who registered the party, wants the Western Cape High Court to stop Parliament and the MK Party from removing him from the party list, pending applications before the Electoral Court on the same matter.

Khumalo's name appeared in the top spot on the list handed to Parliament by Chief Justice Raymond Zondo, as received from the Electoral Commission last week.

Khumalo said that he will file a part B application to have his expulsion letter declared unlawful, unconstitutional and invalid and for him to be reinstated.

In a letter to Khumalo, Parliament said it had removed him from the list of designated MPs following correspondence from the MK Party.

Before Tuesday's Constitutional Court application to interdict Friday's sitting, the MK Party already indicated to Parliament that its 58 candidates would boycott the swearing-in ceremony until the courts had heard its concerns regarding the election result.