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Andile Lungisa has filed an urgent application in the Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg challenging his removal from the ANC\u2019s 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 \u201celectoral humiliation\u201d in the metro. Lungisa, a member of the party\u2019s National Executive Committee, wants the court to declare that his removal was unlawful and that he remains the ANC\u2019s validly nominated number-one candidate for mayor ahead of the 4 November local government elections.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andile Lungisa has filed an urgent court application against the ANC, seeking to overturn his removal from the party\u2019s Nelson Mandela Bay mayoral list after warning of electoral humiliation.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[33,1002,1003,1011,31,997,693],"class_list":["post-1122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-anc","tag-andile-lungisa","tag-candidate-list","tag-court-case","tag-fikile-mbalula","tag-local-elections-2026","tag-nelson-mandela-bay"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nLungisa Challenges ANC in Court Over Removal from Mayoral List - MK Party<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/mk-party.co.za\/zu_za\/lungisa-challenges-anc-in-court-over-removal-from-mayoral-list\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lungisa Challenges ANC in Court Over Removal from Mayoral List\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andile Lungisa has filed an urgent court application against the ANC, seeking to overturn his removal from the party\u2019s Nelson Mandela Bay mayoral list after warning of electoral humiliation.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/mk-party.co.za\/zu_za\/lungisa-challenges-anc-in-court-over-removal-from-mayoral-list\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"MK Party\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-09-14T06:30:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/mk-party.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/uMkhonto-Wesizwe.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"300\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Siphiwe Khaya\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Siphiwe Khaya\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mk-party.co.za\/lungisa-challenges-anc-in-court-over-removal-from-mayoral-list\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mk-party.co.za\/lungisa-challenges-anc-in-court-over-removal-from-mayoral-list\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Siphiwe Khaya\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mk-party.co.za\/#\/schema\/person\/9f56905371434eb29146240baa3cb283\"},\"headline\":\"Lungisa Challenges ANC in Court Over Removal from Mayoral List\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-09-14T06:30:45+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-14T06:30:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mk-party.co.za\/lungisa-challenges-anc-in-court-over-removal-from-mayoral-list\/\"},\"wordCount\":105,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mk-party.co.za\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"ANC\",\"Andile Lungisa\",\"candidate list\",\"Court Case\",\"Fikile Mbalula\",\"Local Elections 2026\",\"Nelson Mandela Bay\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"zu\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/mk-party.co.za\/lungisa-challenges-anc-in-court-over-removal-from-mayoral-list\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/mk-party.co.za\/lungisa-challenges-anc-in-court-over-removal-from-mayoral-list\/\",\"name\":\"Lungisa Challenges ANC in Court Over Removal from Mayoral List - 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