More fist fights & Insults as ANC candidates continue to disagree

Mbasa Gqokoma
27 May 2016

Punches and insults are flying amid tension over the ANC’s municipal councillor lists in the Dr WB Rubusane region in the Eastern Cape.

The outbursts have been allegedly blamed on power struggles, especially when popular choices of candidates put forward by members on the ground are overridden by party bosses higher up the rungs.

Members allegedly said their mini-revolt was based on similar manipulations of 2011 election lists, and that national leadership instructions for popular choices to be respected were being openly ignored.


In one claim this week, two faction’s allegedly hurled insults at each other in the street as one group toyi-toyed past the home of a city Councillor who was surrounded by supporters.

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