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MGOLogoShort.JPG 25 June 2016 Who lit the match? Political heavyweight George Matjila's name is being mentioned in political corridors as the mastermind behind the violent protests in Tshwane that left five people dead, more than 50 arrested and millions of rands in infrastructure up in smoke. But in an interview with the Mail and Guardian on Thursday, Matjila vehemently denied the allegations, dismissing them as "propaganda" intended to harm his good name. There is, however, little doubt that Matjila, who is the ANC's Deputy Regional Secretary and a member of the mayoral committee on transport in Tshwane, is a key player within the ANC's regional and provincial structures. Last year, Matjila was expelled from his ANC [Youth League] position in Tshwane after being found guilty of being behind the violent disruption of an ANC Youth League conference in the city. In its ruling, the provincial disciplinary committee found that "the motive behind (Matjila's) plan was to ensure that the conference did not proceed, because, in his view, a faction hostile to the regional leadership was going to emerge. Sputla with George Matjila, MG, 25 June 2016.jpg __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13705 (20160625) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/yclsa-eom-forum/000c01d1cee3%248e2962b0%24aa7c2810%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
