Morning Star.png South Africa: SACP Suspends Five After Tshwane Riots Gauteng leaders face 'factionalism' charge James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 27 June 2016 Five local leaders were suspended by the Communist Party (SACP) yesterday in the aftermath of deadly riots opposing the African National Congress candidate for mayor of Tshwane, which includes Pretoria. SACP Gauteng provincial secretary Jacob Mamabolo said the five would be charged with bringing the party into disrepute and for violating its rule against factional behaviour in other organisations - in this case the ANC. It follows the report of a investigative panel set up last Monday. But Mr Mamablo said the report would be kept secret. But he said ominously: "Law enforcement agencies must move swiftly and decisively . to hold culprits criminally liable" in the unrest. While Mr Mamablo did not name the five district executive committee members suspended, he said they included all the office bearers. One of those is Apson Makaung, who had campaigned for years to expose corruption involving Tshwane mayor Kgosientso "Sputla" Ramokgoke and his faction in the local ANC - for which Mr Makaung was also suspended last May. The violence broke out on Sunday evening after the ANC replaced Mr Ramokgoke as the mayoral candidate in August 3 elections with National Assembly chairwoman Thoko Didiza. While the ANC gave no reason for the switch, an anonymous source told newspapers that he had been involved in corrupt dealings with local businessmen. The source further alleged that the rioting was organised by a meeting of 13 of those businessmen and members of Mr Ramokgoke's faction at the city's Court Classique Hotel, led by former ANC Tshwane regional deputy secretary and Tshwane city council transport chief George Matjila. A purported photo and a text message of minutes of the meeting were leaked on Thursday by Mr Makaung and others. Mr Matjila claimed the photo of the baker's dozen eating pizza in a hotel room was taken in Durban, where "comrades" had gone for "a rest." He and another alleged member of the group, Tsholofelo Malope, claimed they were at the ANC's Luthuli House HQ in Johannesburg with regional officials - including one who leads a faction often opposed to the national ANC leadership and allied with Mr Ramokgoke's faction. Mr Matjila accused other ANC members of inciting the violence. From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-5044-South-Africa-SACP-suspends-five-af ter-Tshwane-riots#.V3CkY_l9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13710 (20160626) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- 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]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d1d02b%24c31995a0%24494cc0e0%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
