Four senior Eastern Cape ANC officials will face the party’s wrath at Calata House today for criticising ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe.
The Daily Dispatch can reveal that the ANC’s provincial disciplinary committee (PDC) have summoned Lukhanji subregional leaders Luyanda Nogemane and Thandazo Booi, and Inxuba Yethemba sub- regional leaders Zolile “Blade” Masimini and Ayanda Nuku, to a disciplinary hearing today.
This follows remarks Nogemane and Masimini made in an interview with the Dispatch last November.
The leaders accused Mantashe of trying to force the party’s Chris Hani district to support him for the party presidency in 2017 at a meeting held in Mantashe’s yard in Cala.
The Dispatch reported at the time that both Nogemane and Masimini said when they attended the meeting with more than 300 delegates from the Chris Hani region, they were hoping for feedback on the disbandment of their regional structure.
Instead, Mantashe ordered them to toe his line or suffer the consequences. Mantashe challenged the claims, saying all he did was give guidance on party processes.
Masimini said Mantashe even claimed that “we carried placards to Calata House saying ‘Mantashe cannot be the president’.”
“I don’t remember seeing anyone carrying such a placard,” added Masimini.
A few weeks later both Masimini and Nogemane received letters giving them 48 hours to give reasons that they should not be charged “for addressing the media without having a mandate to do so”.
Nogemane is the Lukhanji sub- regional deputy secretary and Masimini is Inxuba Yethemba’s sub-regional secretary.
ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said the utterances of those who have since been charged were misleading.
“They were not a true reflection of what transpired at the Cala meeting.”
Mabuyane, Mantashe, ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa and ANC national working committee member Fikile Xasa were also present at the meeting.
But yesterday Mabuyane refused to comment on the disciplinary hearing saying, “any disciplinary committee case is an ANC internal matter”.
“All I can say is that those who decided to talk to the media and spread rumours about succession, knowing fully well that the meeting had nothing to do with succession battles, will have to account.
“This case is with the PDC, not the PEC . As the PEC, we will just await the outcomes of the DC hearing,” said Mabuyane.
Contacted for comment yesterday Masimini and Nogemane refused to comment, and Booi and Nuku could not be reached by the time of writing. — zineg@dispatch.co.za
ANC cracks down on dissent
The Daily Dispatch can reveal that the ANC’s provincial disciplinary committee (PDC) have summoned Lukhanji subregional leaders Luyanda Nogemane and Thandazo Booi, and Inxuba Yethemba sub- regional leaders Zolile “Blade” Masimini and Ayanda Nuku, to a disciplinary hearing today.
This follows remarks Nogemane and Masimini made in an interview with the Dispatch last November.
The leaders accused Mantashe of trying to force the party’s Chris Hani district to support him for the party presidency in 2017 at a meeting held in Mantashe’s yard in Cala.
The Dispatch reported at the time that both Nogemane and Masimini said when they attended the meeting with more than 300 delegates from the Chris Hani region, they were hoping for feedback on the disbandment of their regional structure.
Instead, Mantashe ordered them to toe his line or suffer the consequences. Mantashe challenged the claims, saying all he did was give guidance on party processes.
Masimini said Mantashe even claimed that “we carried placards to Calata House saying ‘Mantashe cannot be the president’.”
“I don’t remember seeing anyone carrying such a placard,” added Masimini.
A few weeks later both Masimini and Nogemane received letters giving them 48 hours to give reasons that they should not be charged “for addressing the media without having a mandate to do so”.
Nogemane is the Lukhanji sub- regional deputy secretary and Masimini is Inxuba Yethemba’s sub-regional secretary.
ANC provincial secretary Oscar Mabuyane said the utterances of those who have since been charged were misleading.
“They were not a true reflection of what transpired at the Cala meeting.”
Mabuyane, Mantashe, ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa and ANC national working committee member Fikile Xasa were also present at the meeting.
But yesterday Mabuyane refused to comment on the disciplinary hearing saying, “any disciplinary committee case is an ANC internal matter”.
“All I can say is that those who decided to talk to the media and spread rumours about succession, knowing fully well that the meeting had nothing to do with succession battles, will have to account.
“This case is with the PDC, not the PEC . As the PEC, we will just await the outcomes of the DC hearing,” said Mabuyane.
Contacted for comment yesterday Masimini and Nogemane refused to comment, and Booi and Nuku could not be reached by the time of writing. — zineg@dispatch.co.za
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