PHUTI MOSOMANE
ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula is expected to visit Tumahole, Fezile Dabi region, Free State and to meet with party’s structures on Tuesday afternoon, the ANC regional spokesperson Sello Pietersenhas said.
“The visit by the Secretary General seeks to strengthen and support the election work by the Region and the Province leading towards the Provincial and National elections in 2024,” he said adding that Mbalula will have interactions with various stakeholders in the community.
“We are therefore encouraged and looking forward to the visit by the Secretary General who will, undoubtedly, marshal all ANC structures in the region” he said.
The area is home to expelled former ANC Secretary-General Ace Magashule and on June 16, a group of angry residents who are also members of the ANC, burned ANC t-shirts in protest over his expulsion from the party after he was found guilty of misconduct.
The angry residents blamed the outcome and expulsion of Magashule and continued lack of service delivery for their actions.
The Fezile Dabi Regional Chairperson Thabo Mabasa said at the time that the party is aware of the intentions of the group of people who were burning ANC regalia which is “to create confusion among our people”.
The visit by Mbalula also follows confirmation by sources that Magashule will launch a new party this weekend called the African Transformation Congress in the Vaal and in Gauteng..
“It’s a preemptive strike by Mbalula who knows well that Magashule has support in the Tumahole and Free State in general,” the source said.
Last week, Mbalula accused Magashule of recruiting ANC members for his new party saying his predecessor was hard at work mobiling in areas of the Free State for ANC structures to join his political party.
“He has been mobilising, hard at work in the areas of the Free State, mobilising ANC structures to join his movement and the pronouncements that other political parties are actually talking to him,” he said.
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