African National Congress (ANC) Eastern Cape secretary Oscar Mabuyane has described the fiery Cambridge protest as “treason”.
He said to blockade and deny other people the right to vote is akin to undermining the state.
Speaking moments after he voted in Buffalo City‚ the party boss urged the police and other law enforcement agencies to “deal with that situation“.
Mabuyane also blamed the protest on “elements of a third force and counter-revolutionary tendencies” who were raising “petty peripheral issues”‚ and said the ANC would not allow anybody to disrupt elections in South Africa.
The protest in the East London township was fanned by the perceived imposition of an ANC candidate on the local branch‚ which saw the ground-up choice of candidate being sidelined.
Elsewhere‚ Pemmy Majodina‚ the province’s MEC for Sports‚ Recreation‚ Arts and Culture‚ spoke out against alleged protests waged by the Sterkspruit Civic Alliance in her home area of Sterkspruit.
The alliance is apparently demanding to be allowed to secede from the Senqu Municipality and set up on under its own local authority.
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Buffalo City protests condemned as ‘treason’
African National Congress (ANC) Eastern Cape secretary Oscar Mabuyane has described the fiery Cambridge protest as “treason”.
He said to blockade and deny other people the right to vote is akin to undermining the state.
Speaking moments after he voted in Buffalo City‚ the party boss urged the police and other law enforcement agencies to “deal with that situation“.
Mabuyane also blamed the protest on “elements of a third force and counter-revolutionary tendencies” who were raising “petty peripheral issues”‚ and said the ANC would not allow anybody to disrupt elections in South Africa.
The protest in the East London township was fanned by the perceived imposition of an ANC candidate on the local branch‚ which saw the ground-up choice of candidate being sidelined.
Elsewhere‚ Pemmy Majodina‚ the province’s MEC for Sports‚ Recreation‚ Arts and Culture‚ spoke out against alleged protests waged by the Sterkspruit Civic Alliance in her home area of Sterkspruit.
The alliance is apparently demanding to be allowed to secede from the Senqu Municipality and set up on under its own local authority.
Live results, cool maps, fierce battlegrounds: follow the local elections on our web app:http://bit.ly/2apwZKU
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