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Councillor arrested over SACP clash SAPA, IOL, Mbombela, 2 February 2015 An Mpumalanga councillor has been arrested in connection with a clash between members of the ANC and the SA Communist Party that left 10 people hospitalised, police said on Monday. Kanyamazane police spokesman Warrant Officer Andries Shikwambane told a Sapa correspondent that a member of Mbombela local municipality's mayoral committee was arrested at his home on Monday. "I can confirm that two people have been arrested for the violence that took place at Kanyamazane on January 25. The two have been charged with malicious damage to property," said Shikwambane. By 4.30pm on Monday, the councillor had not yet appeared in the Nelspruit Magistrate's Court because police and prosecutors were still waiting for his co-accused to arrive from Barberton, where he was arrested on Monday. The incident, which made headlines, took place when people wearing ANC T-shirts violently disrupted a memorial lecture where former ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa and SACP provincial secretary Bonakele Majuba were expected to speak in Kanyamazane on January 25. The SACP memorial lecture about SACP stalwart Joe Slovo and slain former Mbombela municipal speaker Jimmy Mohlala had to be called off when the people clad in ANC T-shirts stormed the Kanyamazane community hall, assaulting SACP members and also vandalising the hall as well as cars belonging to SACP members. Sapa From: http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/councillor-arrested-over-sacp-clash-1 .1812458#.VM_HiGiUeD8 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
