PHUTI MOSOMANE
FREE STATE Premier Sisi Ntombela said ANC members in the province – once a stronghold of former ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule – have put their differences aside and worked hard to ensure President Cyril Ramaphosa’s January 8 celebrations were properly organised.
“Look around Mr President and see how the Free State has worked this week to organise mini-rallies and the night’s gala dinner to demonstrate to you that they are happy that you are back [as ANC President],” said Ntombela during the ANC’s gala dinner at the Imvelo Safarir Lodge in Reddersburg, Mangaung.
Ntombela, a former ally of Magashule, said despite differences that played out in the public in which two competing factions held regional rallies in Mangaung, bona fide ANC members in the province have done everything to ensure Ramaphosa ‘feels at home’.
Ramaphosa is expected to deliver his sixth January 8 statement at the Dr Molemela
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