Disgruntled members of the disbanded executive of the ANC's Dullah Omar region have snubbed a meeting with the party's Western Cape bosses, a spokesperson for the dissidents said on Thursday.
Provincial leaders had called the meeting for 4pm on Wednesday afternoon at the provincial headquarters in Cape Town. They said it was to formally convey the decision of the recent ANC provincial conference that the Dullah Omar executive be disbanded. Dullah Omar secretary Mbulelo Ncedana said on Thursday that the 20 members of the regional executive were notified of the meeting by his office as well as by the province. "We did not go to that meeting because we do not recognise those people," he said. He said one or two members might have gone, but "99 percent", including chairperson Tozama Bevu, did not. An ANC provincial official confirmed to Sapa that the meeting did not take place. He said however this was because Ncedana, to whom the original invitation letter was sent, had not informed the other members of the executive of it. During last month's provincial conference, Ncedana led a breakaway group in a meeting at an another venue, claiming the conference was rigged.
