Eastern Cape ANC secretary Oscar Mabuyane has slammed the fiery Cambridge protest as “treason”.
He said to blockade and deny other people the right to vote is basically to undermine the state, it is a kind of treason.
Speaking moments after he voted in Buffalo City, the provincial ANC party boss urged the police and other law enforcement agencies to "deal with that situation".
He 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 is fanned by the perceived imposition of an ANC candidate on the local branch which saw the ground-up choice of candidate being sidelined.
While Mabuyane was defending voters’ rights in protest-hit Cambridge Location, Pemmy Majodina, the province's Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture MEC, was speaking out in her home area of Sterkspruit against alleged protests waged by the Sterkspruit Civic Alliance.
The alliance is demanding out of Senqu Municipality and wants its own local authority.
Majodina says different parties there are working together to counter the alliance's disruptions.
ANC EC secretary slams election day protest as 'treason'
He said to blockade and deny other people the right to vote is basically to undermine the state, it is a kind of treason.
Speaking moments after he voted in Buffalo City, the provincial ANC party boss urged the police and other law enforcement agencies to "deal with that situation".
He 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 is fanned by the perceived imposition of an ANC candidate on the local branch which saw the ground-up choice of candidate being sidelined.
While Mabuyane was defending voters’ rights in protest-hit Cambridge Location, Pemmy Majodina, the province's Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture MEC, was speaking out in her home area of Sterkspruit against alleged protests waged by the Sterkspruit Civic Alliance.
The alliance is demanding out of Senqu Municipality and wants its own local authority.
Majodina says different parties there are working together to counter the alliance's disruptions.
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