New Age2.png EFF councillors in violent spat Party's members clash over local government positions France Nyaka, The New Age, Johannesburg, 18 August 2016 Scores of people watched in dis-belief when unruly EFF members fought among themselves on the premises of the ANC-led Them-bisile Hani local municipality in Kwaggafontein in Mpumalanga on Tuesday. This happened after an argu-ment ensued between the EFF regional leadership and other members over a list of nominated councillors to be deployed in the municipality after the EFF won nine seats in the municipality and became an opposition following the recent local government elec-tions. The fight started when the EFF members stormed into the chamber where a council sitting to elect an executive mayor and other councillors was in process. The EFF group forcefully removed their fellow members and demanded that they should not participate in the council sit-ting until their problems had been resolved. The fight also saw a luxury car of one of the party's regional lead-ers being damaged. Some of the leaders ran to the nearby Kwag-gafontein police station for cover. EFF member and Thembalethu branch chairperson, Lawrence Maseko, said they were concerned because the party's regional leadership decided to remove the names of the members whose faces were on the party's election campaigning posters as council-lor candidates from the list of the nominated councillors meant to be deployed in the municipality. Maseko said the councillor can-didates were replaced by other members, some of whom were alleged to be girlfriends and rela-tives of some of the leaders. "We had no choice but to force ourselves into the chamber and remove all the EFF rats that sneaked in to be nominated as councillors while we are still busy trying to resolve the list issue. We will not allow the EFF to have councillors in the munici-pality until the matter has been resolved. The national leadership is aware of the crisis. "We cannot tolerate being abused as councillor candidates for other people's benefit," Maseko said. Our attempt to get comment from the EFF provincial secretary Alfred Skhosana was not success-ful yesterday. Municipal spokesperson Sim-phiwe Mashiyane, said the EFF should have resolved their prob-lems ahead of the council sitting instead of disturbing other politi-cal parties. "As the municipality, we con-demn the misbehaviour of the EFF with the strongest terms, although we are grateful that the council sitting eventually man-aged to proceed with the help of the police," Mashiyane said. <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] From: <http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/18082016/epaperpdf/4.pdf> http://tnaepaper.co.za/DRIVE/main%20edition/18082016/epaperpdf/4.pdf __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 13983 (20160818) __________ 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/002401d1f985%2425b91c30%24712b5490%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
