'People cannot oppose freedom of expression' - ANC distances itself from Magashule book launch chaos

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'People cannot oppose freedom of expression' - ANC distances itself from Magashule book launch chaos
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'People cannot oppose freedom of expression' - ANC distances itself from GangsterState launch chaos | Sesona_Ngqaks

Gangster State: Unravelling Ace Magashule's web of captureANC acting national spokesperson Dakota Legoete emphasised that those who disrupted the launch at Exclusive Books in Sandton City on Tuesday night had not done so in the name of the ruling party or on behalf of Magashule, the ANC's secretary general."We need to condemn that because people cannot oppose freedom of expression, whether it's through a book or something.

Announcing the planned burning at the Mangaung dumping site, provincial ANCYL spokesperson Sello Pietersen said:"We therefore urge society to bring along as many copies of this puke as possible, as well as any material that reflects the barbaric past, such as the old apartheid flag, along to our fireplace"."Whatever [Myburgh] wrote there was within his right to express.

"I actually read the book myself and I could point to it to say many of the pages actually get to speak about undisclosed sources, and these remain allegations.""This comes not as a shock that it's even just a month before the general elections, because an attack against an ANC leader is the losing of confidence for the voters who are supposed to be [voting] for the ANC.""A lot of books were damaged, a lot of books thrown on the floor, ripped up.

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