Court overturns Mbalula’s decision to remove Andile Lungisa from ANC election candidate list
Andile Lungisa challenges Mbalula’s authority Delivering judgment, Judge Nelisa Phiwokazi Mali noted that the court’s task was to establish whether Mbalula had acted within the powers granted to him by the ANC’s governing structures to remove Lungisa’s name from the list.
The judgment, delivered on Friday, 9 October 2026, found that the decision to remove Lungisa from the proportional representation (PR) councillor list for Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in the Eastern Cape was unlawful.
ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) member Andile Lungisa has secured a court victory after the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg ruled against his exclusion from the party’s candidate list for the November 2026 local government elections.
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