Online Reporter
Sikhumbuzo Moyo,[email protected]
EXPELLED Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general, Senator Sengezo Tshabangu, is set to have his appeal against expulsion heard at the High Court in Harare on Thursday afternoon.
In his urgent application, filed through his legal representative, Mr Kholwañi Ngwenya, Sen Tshabangu argues that the terms of office for organs of the party, as set out in Article 6 of the party constitution—including the office of the president, but excluding the parliamentary and local government caucuses—expired on 27 May 2024.
“Because the terms of office so expired, none of the organs in Article 6 of the party constitution, and in particular Professor Welshman Ncube, had lawful and competent authority to appoint a national disciplinary committee and an arbiter general. The panel appointed by Prof Ncube, purporting to be a national disciplinary committee, and an arbiter general purporting to be one, could not and did not lawfully sit in judgment and prosecution, respectively, on Sen Tshabangu,” reads the court papers.
Sen Tshabangu contends that the ruling of the purported national disciplinary committee, both in verdict and sanction, is of no consequence.
