N.B. There is a fallacy in this article, or plural fallacies. The contest for mayor began weeks and months before Thoko Didiza was involved. The first death was one day before Cde Didiza was made candidate for mayor in Tshwane. Therefore it cannot be the case that perpetrators were only "coerced" into violence after Cde Didiza's deployment was announced. And what does it mean to say that people were "coerced" (i.e. forced) into doing arson, looting and murder?
_____ TheTimes.jpg Koka Maoto and Vat Alles workers were used for Tshwane violence: allegation Sipho Mabena, The Times, Johannesburg, 11 July, 2016 Some of the instigators of the deadly political violence that turned areas of Tshwane into no-go zones and left five people dead had been employed by the city through its mayoral jobs-creation programme - and feared that they would be fired if Thoko Didiza replaced Kgosientso Ramokgopa as Tshwane's mayor. Senior ANC members and municipal officials, who asked not to be named, told The Times that contract workers employed in the Koka Maoto and Vat Alles programmes were told they would lose their jobs if Ramokgopa were replaced. The programmes, launched in 2007, deal with service delivery backlogs prioritised by the mayor. They employ people to clean cemeteries, cut grass and repair roads and other infrastructure. Whose private army? "[The projects] were a good thing because they created employment. But [the workers] were morphed into some sort of private army. These workers were used in factional battles," said a senior ANC member. When Didiza's candidacy was announced, those in the programmes were coerced into carrying out the violence, he said. "They were told that they were protecting their livelihoods because Didiza would shut down the programmes." The plan to destabilise the Tshwane municipality was reportedly hatched in a secret meeting held in Arcadia, Pretoria, after Didiza was named as the mayoral candidate. Mamabolo mum The Times has learned that four of the 10 SA Communist Party members suspended pending an investigation into the violence were employed in the programmes. The party's Gauteng provincial secretary, Jacob Mamabolo, would not name those suspended, say what positions they held in the programmes, or discuss what charges they faced, and when they would be charged. Donald Mothoa, the party's deputy secretary for Tshwane, who has been employed in the Vat Alles programme since November 2015, is among those suspended. He has challenged the party to prove that the suspended members stoked violence and to take its evidence to the police. No evidence "Failing to do so makes the party guilty of defeating the ends of justice. They have no evidence. This is a public relations exercise." Mothoa has been a thorn in the municipality's side since 2014. He is alleged to have been behind protests mounted by hawkers against the city. The protests were over mayor Ramokgopa's attempts to remove them from the city's streets in a controversial inner-city clean-up project. Mayoral spokesman Blessing Manale said the municipality had not launched its own investigation into allegations that municipal officials were involved in fomenting the violence. "We do not know what judicial test the SACP used to suspend its members," said Manale, adding that any municipal investigation would be an internal process. From: http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2016/07/11/Political-con-behind-Tshwane- violence __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13782 (20160711) __________ 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/000c01d1db3e%2409aec900%241d0c5b00%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
