On 25 March 2011 I gave an order dismissing the applicants’ application and intimated that my reasons for so ordering would follow. These are the reasons.

On 11 March 2011 applicants launched an application in terms whereof notice was given to the various respondents that application would be made on 24 March 2011 for an order, inter alia, in the following terms:

“2. That notice of this application to the List of Candidates marked Annexure “A” to the Notice of Motion by publication in the Daily Dispatch newspaper and broadcast thereof on a radio station broadcasting within the Eastern Cape Region be condoned.

3. That the process in terms of which the Lists for Candidates for Local Government Elections for the Buffalo City Region were finalised, be declared improper, unlawful and/or irregular.

4. That the said Lists of Candidates for Local Government elections for the Buffalo City Region finalised on 8 March 2011 be and are hereby set aside and are declared null and void.

5. That the First Respondent and the Second Respondent be and are hereby interdicted from submitting any final List/Lists of Candidates to the Fifth Respondent, until such time as due and proper compliance with the Guidelines, the Constitution and Procedures for the proper nomination of candidates has been implemented.

6. That all decisions taken by the unlawfully constituted Buffalo City Interim Regional Committee under the chairmanship of Mr. Mxolisi Dimaza and Secretary, Pumla Nazo as from 1 October 2010 to 13 February 2011 be declared invalid and set aside.

7. That the costs of this application be paid by the First, Second, Third and Fourth Respondents, jointly and severally, the one paying the other to be absolved.”