ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule has launched a scathing attack on members who continuously take the party to court, and has called for their punishment. Magashule was delivering the keynote address at the opening of the eighth elective conference of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal‚ which was almost interdicted earlier on Thursday. "The awful tendency to take the ANC to court by disaffected groups must come to a final end‚ and the self-centred ill discipline that informs such behaviour must be punished and rooted out once and for all‚" he said. Provincial leaders have warned that failing to elect leadership will hurt the province’s performance at the 2019 general elections. "The enemy is among you. ANC KwaZulu-Natal contributes about 22% of the ANC national vote. If you don’t unite‚ engage and persuade one another‚ you would have betrayed the revolution‚" Magashule said. Six disgruntled members from the Moses Mabhida and Lower South Coast regions had attempted, at the 11th hour, to stop...
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