WATCH | The provincial office of the ANC in Mpumalanga was set alight by an unknown man on Thursday morning, who walked in, doused it with petrol and set it alight, before walking off again. | City_Press
Firefighters and police arrived quickly to douse the fire at the January Che Masilela building in Mbombela. Two offices were burnt, but provincial ANC spokesperson Sasekani Manzini said that the party had not yet assessed the damage and verified what important information had been burnt [see video below].
Asked whether the ANC knew the motive for the arson and whether any documents containing details of the upcoming elective provincial conference were damaged, Manzini said: The ANC is due to convene a provincial conference, which should have sat in 2020. Dates for the conference have been changed a few times. It was scheduled for this weekend but now the date has been set for April.Mpumalanga’s struggle to convene the elective conference can be attributed to the vacuum that Deputy President David Mabuza left when he was elected to the national executive committee in December 2017.
Ndlovu is part of the Focus faction, which has shown its force by deploying most of its members in key municipal positions since the November 1 elections.On the other hand, Ndinisa’s faction – Ngci – has shown to be losing the power it had when Mabuza was still in charge of the province.
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