Two prominent suspended African National Congress members in the Free State are taking the party to court in an attempt to have their suspensions lifted, the Volksblad newspaper reported on Monday.
Vax Mayekiso, a business man from Goldfields and Sello Dithebe, ANC MP for Odendaalsrus want the court to reverse their suspensions.
The two men - and six others - have also demanded that recent decisions of the party leadership in the province as well as the appointment of new branch and regional leaders in Lejweleputswa, (Goldfields and northern Free State),
Fezile Dabi (Sasolburg-Kroonstad region) and Motheo (Bloemfontein) be declared null en void.
The court application was brought against Free State ANC leader Ace Magashule, the ANC, national leaders such as secretary-general Gwede Mantashe and about 100 others, the report said.
Various disgruntled ANC members at the end of 2007 - just before the Polokwane conference - took the Free State ANC leadership to court over the election of regional leadership structures.
The matter was later dropped after an out of court settlement was reached. - Sapa