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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