'As the ANC Veterans League we call on young people to desist from burning or encouraging others to burn books that they do not agree with.'
090419w - Johannesburg - A group of ANC supporters disrupted the Gangster State book launch at exclusive books in sandton,Pieter-louis Myburgh at the launch foto: Felix Dlangamandla/ Netwerk24
The protesters stormed the Johannesburg bookshop on Tuesday and ripped pages from the book which they threw around before security at Sandton Exclusive Books escorted them out, veterans league president Snuki Zikalala said in a statement on Sunday. Ramaphosa had unambiguously distanced the ANC from the outrageous disruption of the launch, which was not what the ANC stood for, and made it crystal clear that the school would produce “cadres who, like all of us, condemn in no uncertain terms, the actions of those who disrupted a book launch in Johannesburg a few days ago and who call for books to be burned”.
The Oliver Tambo School of Leadership would definitely inculcate the culture of research, reading, and appreciation of the immense sacrifices made by the majority of the people to usher in democracy.
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