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ANC supporters, dressed in the ANC insignia, were dropped off at the regional office in various taxis.
Pointing to the regional office, Nama said the new regional task force would operate from there because there was only one ANC in the metro.
Nama said the ANC members were being purged by the regional task force on a daily basis and this would stop.
In a letter to Lungisa on Sunday, Nqakula wrote that he was seeking the go-ahead from the party’s Eastern Cape chiefs to temporarily suspend his membership in the ANC.
The police told the protesters to disperse because they were disobeying the Disaster Management Law, as there were more than 50 of them.
ANC councilor Makhi Feni told police that the protesters would split into two groups, which they subsequently did.
Before the protest, on Friday, Nama wrote to ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule requesting that the RTT be disbanded for various reasons, including allegations of corruption and irregularity in personal protective equipment (PPE) by Nqakula and the regional convenor Nceba Faku.
The letter, which was shared during the protest, said that RTT had failed to build branches or hold a congress.
Nama said the RTT had been overzealous about the council and coalition issues that were meant to be dealt with at the national level.
ANC provincial spokesman Loyiso Magqashela condemned the protest.
“We condemn such actions because those powers know that the power to establish and dissolve structures resides in the PEC (provincial executive committee) and not in them.
“They can write and express their views and follow up with the PEC… their concerns.
“It’s not about them usurping powers they don’t have.
“This creates chaos and anarchy within the structures because then we know that the genesis of all this leads to action,” Magqashela said.
On Monday, Nqakula said it was no coincidence that one day after the RTT had sent a letter to “a certain individual” there were protests.
He said that some of the protesters who wanted to disband the RTT had a propensity not to want to submit to the party’s discipline, principles and value system.
“It is anarchy at its best by people prone to creating instability in the ANC, individuals who have a track record of even taking the ANC to court all the way to the Constitutional Court.
“They consciously understand that the ANC is engaged in the deliberate task of renewal and they consciously understand that they will not exist in a renewed ANC because a renewed ANC would have eradicated all negative tendencies towards it and our people,” he said.
In July, the SACP district secretaryLong Nombexeza opened a fraud and corruption case against Nqakula at the Humewood Police Station, claiming that he had received R300,000 from a Free State company that was contracted by the city to deliver toilets to informal settlements.
In response to the corruption allegation, Nqakula said that people went to the Humewood Police Station, but that no charges had been prepared against the defendants.
“The ANC is very clear that the alleged and accused must withdraw from the positions of authority assigned to them by the ANC.
“Those who have been convicted must completely abstain from the positions of responsibility assigned to them.
“We will not be shaken or intimidated in implementing the ANC’s decisions,” Nqakula said.
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