NEWSFLASH: Gangster State: ANC blocks Free State Youth League from burning Ace Magashule book By Sandisiwe Shoba
The ANC has stepped in to call off a plot by the Free State ANC Youth League to host a ceremonial book-burning ofby Pieter-Louis Myburgh. This was after a poster circulating on social media publicised a bonfire which was scheduled for 15 April at the Mangaung dumping site.
The campaign was allegedly supported by the Congress of South African Students and the South African Students Congress , with both logos displayed on the poster advertising the book burning. When contacted on Wednesday morning, however, representatives of both organisations, declined to give comment on their involvement.
In a statement, the Presiding Officers of Parliament, led by Speaker Baleka Mbete and Chairperson Thandi Modise, “condemned, in the strongest terms, the repulsive acts of criminality and flagrant attack on the key principles of our Constitutional democracy” by threats to burn copies of the, the South African National Editors’ Forum referred to Tuesday’s disruption as a violation of the freedom of expression.
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