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Nafcoc fends off attack on validity

Johannesburg - Leave to appeal a court judgment endorsing the validity of Nafcoc's leadership has been refused, the organisation said on Thursday.

"The dismissal allows us to focus on the most important work of growing this sector in order to occupy the centre stage of... the country's economy," National African Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Nafcoc) president Joe Hlongwane said in a statement.

Hlongwane said the High Court in Johannesburg dismissed the application for leave to appeal brought by a group led by Nafcoc's ousted president Lawrence Mavundla.

He had challenged the legitimacy of the meeting which elected Nafcoc's executive.

In February, Judge Ramarumo Monama rejected an application by Mavundla's group to declare invalid the resolutions of a meeting held by a parallel Nafcoc structure, led by Hlongwane, last year.

Hlongwane and his group passed a vote of no confidence in the Mavundla-led executive. Hlongwane was then elected the new president, with a new executive.

Monama ruled the Hlongwane-led meeting was allowed to take place.

Mavundla had ceased to be Nafcoc president on December 4, when his three-year term ended, Monama said.

Hlongwane said the latest ruling gave him and his executive time to "put all energies towards re-building the organisation".

Its national conference is expected to be held at Sun City, North West, next month.


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