Andile Lungisa has filed an urgent application in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg challenging his removal from the ANC’s candidate list for Nelson Mandela Bay. The court action, lodged on 11 September 2026, follows an email Lungisa sent to ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula on 31 August in which he warned of “electoral humiliation” in the metro. Lungisa, a member of the party’s National Executive Committee, wants the court to declare that his removal was unlawful and that he remains the ANC’s validly nominated number-one candidate for mayor ahead of the 4 November local government elections.