Torch will arrive on Friday, June 1
The ANC’s Centenary Torch will arrive in Gauteng on Friday as part of the organisation’s centenary celebrations.
“The torch will be arriving in the Gauteng province on June 1 from the Eastern Cape,” said spokesman Mandla Nkomfe.
He said the torch would arrive at Carletonville at midnight and be kept at a police station until it was handed over to deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe at 8am. He in turn would hand it over to Gauteng African National Congress chairman Paul Mashatile.
The torch would spend five days in the West Rand and then move on to Sedibeng, Ekurhuleni and Tshwane before being taken to Limpopo at the end of June.
The flame would make stop-overs at significant and historic sites in all regions, Nkomfe said.
“The June centenary events will serve as a platform to deepen political understanding and mobilise communities on history, values, culture and renew its strength during the centenary.”
The party’s centenary celebrations started in Mangaung, in the Free State, in January.
Former president Nelson Mandela received the flame at his Qunu home in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday.
Nkomfe said the celebrations in June would pay tribute to Alfred Xuma, the ANC’s president from 1940 to 1949. President Jacob Zuma would deliver a lecture on Xuma’s life and contribution to the ruling party at the Johannesburg city hall on June 15.
ANC centenary torch coming to Gauteng
Torch will arrive on Friday, June 1
The ANC’s Centenary Torch will arrive in Gauteng on Friday as part of the organisation’s centenary celebrations.
“The torch will be arriving in the Gauteng province on June 1 from the Eastern Cape,” said spokesman Mandla Nkomfe.
He said the torch would arrive at Carletonville at midnight and be kept at a police station until it was handed over to deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe at 8am. He in turn would hand it over to Gauteng African National Congress chairman Paul Mashatile.
The torch would spend five days in the West Rand and then move on to Sedibeng, Ekurhuleni and Tshwane before being taken to Limpopo at the end of June.
The flame would make stop-overs at significant and historic sites in all regions, Nkomfe said.
“The June centenary events will serve as a platform to deepen political understanding and mobilise communities on history, values, culture and renew its strength during the centenary.”
The party’s centenary celebrations started in Mangaung, in the Free State, in January.
Former president Nelson Mandela received the flame at his Qunu home in the Eastern Cape on Wednesday.
Nkomfe said the celebrations in June would pay tribute to Alfred Xuma, the ANC’s president from 1940 to 1949. President Jacob Zuma would deliver a lecture on Xuma’s life and contribution to the ruling party at the Johannesburg city hall on June 15.