W Cape ANC suspends 5
2008-10-14 14:04
Cape Town - The ANC in the Western Cape suspended five senior regional members on Tuesday for undermining party unity, the SABC reported.
The newly elected provincial chairperson, Mcebisi Skwatsha, said the five members included Mbulelo Ncedana, the axed secretary of the ANC's Dullah Omar region in the Western Cape.
Skwatsha told a media conference that the five had been suspended because they undermined ANC unity and discipline.
Ncedana was among the organisers of a public meeting of disgruntled ANC members in Langa, Cape Town, on Saturday which was addressed by former ANC chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota.
Lekota and the former deputy defence minister Mluleki George were suspended by the ANC on Monday night.
Lekota, who resigned as defence minister when former president Thabo Mbeki was axed, has said he may start a breakaway political party.
A provincial conference in the Western Cape two weeks ago showed evidence of divisions in the ANC when Ncedana organised a separate meeting of several hundred people, claiming fraud in the way in which delegates had been decided.
The group said it asked the ANC's national leadership to intervene but that it had received no response.
The provincial conference elected pro-Jacob Zuma leaders and disbanded the executive committee of the Dullah Omar region, which includes the Cape metro and has about 30 000 members in 85 branches.
- SAPA