GAUTENG ANC provincial chairperson David Makhura has strongly slammed delegates at the ANC Ekurhuleni Regional Conference for embarassing the governing party with their conduct, which included throwing of chairs, bricks and punch-ups between delegates.
The conference, currently underway at the Indaba hotel, north of Johannesburg, only started late on Saturday afternoon after almost two days of delays due to disagreement over eight disqualified branches.
So deep were the divisions at the elective conference that the Steering Committee led by Makhura and provincial Treasurer Parks Tau had to be called in to diffuse the situation.
“This [conference] is like a war zone. We must be ashamed,” said Makhura in reference to heavily armed private security at the eighth regional conference of Ekurhuleni n Fourways.
“I see arms. I see the sort of things happening that says this is not a conference of the ANC. We must be ashamed. The people carrying
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