Tony Yengeni

Secretary of the ANC's electoral committee Chief Matsila said they received a police record that showed that the criminal record of Yengeni was expunged.

Under the ANC electoral committee rules, members who have been convicted of crimes with a sentence longer than six months cannot stand for a leadership position. Yengeni was overseeing the deal at the time as chairperson of Parliament’s joint standing committee on defence. Yengeni had previously received a letter from the committee stating that he was not eligible to stand as an ANC NEC candidate due to his previous conviction.

Senior ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) member Tony Yengeni has been successful in his appeal against being barred from contesting for positions on ...

He was sentenced to one year in jail or a fine of R100,000. She was sentenced to four years’ imprisonment or a R200,000 fine and opted for the latter. Lungisa was convicted in 2018 of assault and sentenced to three years in prison. My application for expungement was accordingly approved,” he wrote to the committee. Like Yengeni, he was released on parole. In a letter to Yengeni, Motlanthe said the committee had decided to uphold his appeal on the substantive reasons he provided and the proof of the expungement of his criminal record.

Tony Yengeni won his appeal and is now eligible to participate in the ANC conference. He was initially disqualified from running for the NEC because of his ...

The ANC electoral committee has upheld former MP Tony Yengeni's appeal against his disqualification from contesting for positions during the.

“Firstly, it is true that I was found guilty and sentenced to four years imprisonment for which I served four months. To Subscribe to Sunday World, [click here.](https://subs.arena.africa/#!/offer/411?utm_source=promo411&utm_medium=Circ) “My application for expungement was accordingly approved. Yengeni appealed the decision. After more than 10 years of the sentence, I applied to the director-general of the Justice and Constitutional Development for the expungement of my criminal record,” Yengeni said. According to the former MP, he has no criminal record in the eyes of the law, arguing that there are not grounds for him to be barred from being elected to the NEC.