New Age2.png Warm welcome for Thoko Tshwane mayoral candidate's rivals rally to her support in poll campaign Lerato Diale, The New Age, Johannesburg, 30 June 2016 Tshwane rivals appear to have buried the hatchet to rally behind ANC mayoral candidate Thoko Didiza. Didiza arrived to a rousing welcome in Hammanskraal yesterday in the aftermath of mayhem which erupted in parts of the metro last week in the wake of the announcement of her nomination. She was accompanied by assumed rivals, incumbent mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa and his deputy Mapiti Matsena, who both vowed to support the ANC's choice for Tshwane mayor. "We know what the key priorities in the areas of Hammanskraal are - its water, electricity and sanitation, employment creation - we have started a number of those initiatives. Comrade Thoko and her new team will take it to the next level, so we are confident of electoral support," Ramokgopa said. Some ANC members yesterday were wearing T-shirts declaring "We support comrade Thoko Didiza 100%". Didiza struck an upbeat note when she expressed confidence of a decisive win for the ANC in the metro in the August 3 polls. "The support we are getting on the ground makes us to feel confident but we are not complacent so we are continuing to reach out to our people," she said. In a lighter moment she jokingly said that being Zulu disqualified her. "If I don't learn Sotho in two years, I will resign," she said. Didiza also visited the family of slain ANC member Simon Modige who was shot in the unrest triggered by her nomination. "Simon was a member of the ANC and we felt it important that as caring members of the ANC that we come to pay our respects and to work in this area closer to his home. It is important that we show solidarity with his family to let them know that we share in their pain and that they can count on our support," Didiza said. "As the ANC and the leadership at all levels, we are indeed saddened by what we have seen here. We do not necessarily say the cause of such incidents were as a result of the nomination of a mayoral candidate. "There might have been, that could have been just a spark. "We are leaving it to the law enforcement agencies to do their work. I'm sure in time we will all be aware of what were the causes of such violence," she said. ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa also welcome the arrest of a suspect in the killing of Modige. "The ANC welcomes the arrest of a suspect in connection with the murder of comrade Simon Modige in Tshwane," he said. Kodwa also lauded the arrests of a further 40 suspected perpetrators of the Tshwane unrest. "Any member of the ANC who is proven to have participated in the violent protests in Tshwane and elsewhere in the metro will face the full might of our internal disciplinary processes," Kodwa said. [email protected] From: http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/30062016/epaperpdf/1.pdf __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13729 (20160630) __________ 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/001801d1d290%24f7f00180%24e7d00480%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
