Ok so does it surprise you to hear that the ANC councillor that tried to break up a fight and ended up being beaten half to death has been suspended. Well it didn't really surprise me. Let me just explain a few points.
The fight apparently started when a Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) member demanded that the task teams for some of the local wards be disbanded and new interim teams be established. When arguments became verbal tirades and abuses a supporter of the PEC member began to throttle the wife of one of the councillors. So this guy and another step in to help the women out and he gets severely beaten!
Ok, well if you haven’t been following intra-party politics lately I don't really blame you, but here is an update on the salient points. The Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool has been ousted as party leader in the western cape, that means that while he is still the leader of the western cape government he no longer has any clout within the party, effectively neutering him.
The ANC in the Western Cape has been polarised by this, with supporters of Rasool claiming that this has happened because his policies were not african enough. The ANC has so far denied that this is the case and has also totally denied even the existence of a split in the party.
Well by definition if the alleged split existed the PEC member would, by definition, support the new leader of the ANC in the Western Cape and the teams he was demanding were disbanded were full of supporters of, yep you guessed it, Ebrahim Rasool.
So now, after the fight The PEC has suspended the two councillors that were involved (not really caring that their involvement was trying to break up the fight and getting severely beaten trying to stop violence against woman) and dissolved the team that they were from. Hmm sound familiar? Well it's not a galactic republic, but the politics are still Palpatinian!
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