Feb 14, 2011 8:19 AM By Sapa
An ANC regional council meeting in the Eastern Cape had to be cancelled at the weekend after a fight broke out between rival factions.
Police spokesman Warrant Officer Mlungisi Matidane said the meeting had been due to start at 2pm on Sunday in Mount Ayliff but was cancelled after a fight broke out between various faction members at the African National Congress office, the Dispatch Online reports.
"We then heard they [three meeting convenors] were being beaten... we rushed there only to find a vehicle belonging to a councillor had been damaged," Matidane said.
The meeting at the Alfred Nzo district municipality was cancelled and police were called in to disperse the crowd.
The meeting would have revolved around a decision by the national ANC on the constitution of an interim regional committee for the Alfred Nzo region. Read more ...
Is this a case of 'n benoude kat maak benoude spronge (desperate people clutching at straws)?
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