ANC in KZN to engage Ramaphosa over 'undignified' arrests
Updated | By Nushera Soodyal
There is rising anger within the ANC over the way arrests of some party members are being carried out.
The KwaZulu-Natal leadership told the media after its provincial executive committee lekgotla that it reads like a movie script.
"This Hollywood-style appears as though we are intending to embarrass rather than deal with the content of the problem," provincial secretary Mdumiseni Ntuli said on Tuesday.
Ntuli confirmed they've written a letter of complaint to the party's national leadership and want the president to intervene.
Ntuli has confirmed that eThekwini Mayor, Zandile Gumede and her co-accused Mondli Mthembu have been asked to step aside - as the ANC investigates the fraud and corruption charges against them.
Ntuthuko Mahlaba, the mayor of Newcastle, has also been put on a 30-day leave of absence pending a murder investigation against him.
"We want to put before [the president] our deep-seated concern that some of these arrests are sending a signal that we are intolerant to wrongdoing. The manner in which they are being done creates a perception of political manipulation and conspiracy. We want to put that before the president. We want to say investigate arrests - but in a dignified way," Ntuli said.
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