Morning Star.png Attempted Coup in SA Thwarted Veterans Protect ANC National Office James Tweedie, The Morning Star, London, 6 September 2016 An attempted palace coup by a faction of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party fell flat yesterday as struggle veterans turned out to defend the party's HQ. The Occupy Luthuli House stunt - intended to force ANC and national President Jacob Zuma and the entire national executive committee to resign - drew less than 100 supporters. They arrived to find the streets around Luthuli House in Johannesburg packed with loyal ANC members, including veterans of armed wing Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in crisp combat fatigues. Protest organiser Bonolo Ramokhele claimed he had turned away busloads of their own supporters after "threats of violence." But the ANC's Khusela Sangoni said the moderate police presence at the event was "not unreasonable." "It was about occupying Luthuli House, it was not a peaceful demonstration." The resignation call was first made two weeks ago by millionaire Sipho Pityana at the funeral of struggle veteran Reverend Makhenkhesi Stofile. The ANC in Gauteng - which has been blamed for the loss of Johannesburg and Pretoria councils in last month's elections - has long adopted an oppositionist stance to Mr Zuma's leadership. <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] From: <http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-0c88-Veterans-protect-government-HQ-fr om-attempted-coup#.V85QgPl9600> http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-0c88-Veterans-protect-government-HQ-fro m-attempted-coup#.V85QgPl9600 __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 14076 (20160906) __________ 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/002401d20802%24c269dc00%24473d9400%24%40com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
