Provocative ANC MP Boy Mamabolo known as “Mr Perfect Wedding” has lost case against the ANC after he took the ruling party to the Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg, accusing it of removing his name from the party’s candidate list.
Mamabolo who vowed to persuade this matter by challenging the court’s ruling that his matter wasn’t urgent and struck it off the roll on Tuesday, forcing him to file court papers on the normal roll.
The ANC in Limpopo welcomed the court’s decision through its spokesperson Jimmy Machaka who said: “Thank You SM Patel Attorney , Adv Singo Sikhwari SC For Properly defending the ANC, Its decisions and guidelines.”
As expected Mamabolo who vowed not to leave the ANC, saying it is his political home, subjected its Limpopo ANC provincial executive committee (PEC) to public spat through his clip circulated in various media platforms. “I’m a bit sad but it’s not a train smash. The judge only dismissed the agency of the matter. Thuggery must be exposed,” Mamabolo said.
ANC PEC members told The Azanian that Mamabolo might face expulsion from the ruling party because of his unorthodox conduct that seeks to bring the party into disrepute.
The ruling party views Mamabolo’s conduct as mischievous, ill-disciplined, counterrevolutionary, misleading, propagating division within the party, entitlement, pompousness and narcissistic.
Mamabolo’s conduct of public spats might land him into more trouble. He has publicly subjected and entangled himself to Peter Mokaba Region politics. Mamabolo is attacking Peter Mokaba Regional Chairperson and Polokwane Mayor John Makoro Mpe with false rumours and claiming that he (Mamabolo) is forced to be his political ally. Mamabolo said he will support Capricorn Mayor Mamedupi Teffo to oust Makoro.
“Boy is not only reckless but factional and out of order. He must be subjected to ANC disciplinary process. He is a bad loser,” said an ANC PEC member.
Another ANC member who also opted to remain anonymous said Mamabolo this time around has bitten more than he could chew. “His desperation has blinded his consciousness,” he said. "When he makes tournaments through his Boy Mamabolo Foundation nobody criticises him or orchestrates false rumours.
“The enemy is himself because he has lost his consciousness,” said an ANC member who said he finds it disingenuous and extremely disappointing that Mamabolo and his cronies including Fortune Maswanganyi alleges that Mayor Makoro uses a Municipal purse to fund his event. “That’s not true. They must do proper investigations before spreading false rumours on Facebook,” ANC PEC member.
Machaka said such allegations are very unfortunate and therefore ANC in Limpopo will defend itself against controversial Mamabolo for it has not done anything wrong against him.
“The ANC has noted the decision of comrade Mamabolo to take its organisation of the people to court in order to force the organisation to put him on its deployment list.The finalization of registration of candidates to National Assembly and Legislature remains the competency of national leadership of the ANC. Deployment is a privilege and not a right, the ANC will defend itself against cde Boy as there was nothing wrong that was done against him. The party has acted in accordance with the book and has not violated any rules and therefore taking us to court is mischievous,” Machaka.
“The party has done everything in accordance with the constitution. At no moment did the leadership of the ANC remove comrade Boy. Matters of deployment are privileges, they are not a right or a must. The party reserves the right to afford you the opportunity and equally withdraw such opportunity. The ANC will defend itself. There is nothing that was done outside the provisions of the constitution. In this instance, we are pleading with comrade Boy to Contentious ANC MP from Limpopo Boy Mamabolo has accused the ANC provincial executive committee (PEC) of removing his name from the party’s provincial to national election list.”
Meanwhile, in 2020, the controversial Mamabolo was found guilty of contravening ANC Constitution rules and bringing the party and its parliamentary caucus into disrepute.
The party Chief Whip Pemmy Majodina wrote a letter to reprimand Mamabolo for verbally abusing a newspaper journalist Ngwako Malatji. Mamabola was ordered to write an apology to Malatji, the general public and to attend an anger management course.
Mamabolo pleaded guilty to all the charges levelled against him.
“I pleaded guilty to all the charges that I was facing for insulting and threatening Sunday World journalist Mr Ngwako Malatji. I pleaded guilty because I wanted us to deal with this matter as soon as possible. I’m going to apologise to Mr Malatji because I believe in media freedom and as a public representative, I’m expected to behave myself in a dignified manner. From now on, I know that a private conversation on a cell phone is not different from what we are doing in public. I will be apologising to Mr Malatji, Sanef and also the public at large.”
The ANC Parliamentary Caucus instituted an internal disciplinary process against Mamabolo for the verbal abuse of Malatji. The Caucus denounced Mamabolo’s behaviour, saying that it strives to maintain a cordial relationship with members of the media and respects the Constitutional values and Bill of Rights.
That included freedom of expression as well as the freedom of the press and other media to do its work.
ANC MP Boy Mamabolo.
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