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Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>The Lesotho Taekwondo Association\u2019s (LTA) internal squabbles continue to ramble on as clubs and the executive remain engulfed in a bitter power struggle.<\/p>\n

Their issues have been dragged to the courts of law over the past year by the association\u2019s member clubs and the cases have repeatedly caused several proposed elective conferences to be postponed.<\/p>\n

This past Saturday the LTA was again meant hold elections but, just hours before they could start, the LTA was interdicted by a court order that said it could not continue and the elections had be cancelled.<\/p>\n

Members that were already at the venue had to leave. The Lithabaneng Taekwondo Club approached the High Court and filed an urgent application asking the court to stop the elections as they were not invited, despite being fully subscribed to the association.<\/p>\n

Palamang Adams in his founding affidavit where the LTA and Executive Committee of LTA are first and second respondents respectively, asked the court to stop the elections pending the challenging of the Memorandum of Agreement where Lithabaneng Taekwondo Club were excluded in the dialogue on the basis that they were not members as per the constitution, even though all other invited clubs were also not members as per the constitution.<\/p>\n

Before the said elections, the Lesotho Sport and Recreation Commission (LSRC) appointed an independent body to mediate between the parties. However, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) representatives who were going to conduct the election process advised the association to take two more weeks to work on their issues as the IEC believed the LTA was not ready to go to elections.<\/p>\n

However, the LTA declined the advice and pushed through with the elections only to be stopped hours before they could begin. \u201cAs a result of this Memorandum of Agreement the applicant being a subscribed member of the association has been excluded and has therefore been denied the right to vote in the annual meeting,\u201d Adams said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to the constitution, members that can attend the annual meeting are those that have subscribed and their membership has been renewed. As per the constitution the clubs are expected to register and renew membership after March of each year.<\/p>\n

Members that do not subscribe annually seize to be members after three months from March and cannot participate in the annual meeting,\u201d he continued. Adams said currently the clubs that were invited to last Saturday\u2019s elections have not subscribed to the LTA and therefore are not entitled to participate in the association\u2019s annual general meeting.<\/p>\n

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