Controversial Member of Parliament and ANC member Boy Mamabolo says he will still pursue legal action against his party to force it to reinstate him on the party list of candidates for the National Assembly after the May 29 elections. This comes after the Johannesburg High Court struck off the roll his urgent application to interdict the ANC from finalising nominations for the upcoming general elections.

'NOT A TRAIN SMASH'

Mamabolo's name was moved from number five on the Limpopo national candidate list to number 22. According to Mamabolo, factions within the party led to his name being illegally removed from the parliamentary list. He said he was a bit disappointed that the high court struck his matter off the roll. "I'm a bit sad but it's not a train smash. The court only dismissed the urgency of the matter which can go on a normal roll and get a date for early May just before elections. Today we have applied for a new date so that we can go on a normal roll because there's no way you can allow thuggery to take place in this organisation,' he said.

HE WILL NOT GIVE UP 

His next step, he says, is to pursue the matter further. "The battle is not yet over; I have chats between myself and the second party filed court documents indicating that my removal from the party's list was a result of factionalism. I was told that for me to survive in the candidate list, I needed to align myself with a certain faction in Limpopo. So, I refused but the ANC did confirm that I was number five on the list but later moved me to number 22, which is clear that the list was re-arranged fractionally so.' 

QUALIFICATIONS QUESTIONED 

After Mamabolo took the party to court, the ruling party in their reply affidavit asked him to prove that he had a matric certificate. The party told him to prove he has the qualifications he needs to be on the list and accused him of not providing a matric certificate or the legal qualifications he claims he has after several requests for him to do so, since November last year. According to the affidavit by ANC Limpopo list committee chairperson in Limpopo, Kgoshi Thobejane, Mamabolo mentioned in his CV that he had a matric certificate and a law diploma from the University of Johannesburg. Thobejane said Mamabolo had failed to attach the documents.