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Magashule supporters take aim at NEC members calling for him to step aside
This is ahead of the upcoming NEC meeting this week which is likely to discuss guidelines which should be adopted when members are called to step aside.
Some have expressed disappointment in the former ANC councillor's remarks, while his own branch from Ward 2 in Nelson Mandela Bay warned that his views could bring the governing party into disrepute.
Former Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Andile Lungisa was released on parole on Tuesday after he qualified for special remission.
The party’s provincial leader Nqaba Bhanga told Eyewitness News on Tuesday that the party would approach the Department of Correctional Services to understand how the former MMC and ANC councillor’s parole came about.
Lungisa, just hours after being released from the St Alban’s Prison in Port Elizabeth on Tuesday, told his supporters that it was their responsibility to tell President Cyril Ramaphosa that attacks on the former president must come to an end.
After much confusion last week, the Correctional Services Department confirmed on Tuesday that the jailed ANC councillor would be released from prison on parole.
This comes after supporters of the jailed African National Congress councillor allege that he’ll be released on parole next week.
While supporters of the former Nelson Mandela Bay councillor say he will walk out of prison next week, the Correctional Services Department said it had no knowledge of Andile Lungisa’s imminent release.
Andile Lungisa had to apologise publicly for several offensive tweets criticising Kganyago and calling him the k-word last year.
The Reserve Bank governor agreed to drop his defamation case in which he was seeking R500,000 but only if Lungisa apologised publicly and retracted his verbal attack.
Lungisa is serving a two-year jail sentence at a prison in Grahamstown after he assaulted a DA councillor with a glass jug in 2016.
ANC Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Andile Lungisa on Friday turned down a bail offer by the High Court in Makanda.
Andile Lungisa has been fighting to avoid prison, having submitted multiple appeals of his conviction, even approaching the Constitutional Court.
This means that he will once again be released from prison pending the outcome of his application for leave to appeal to the Constitutional Court.
Lungisa was handed a two-year jail term in 2018 for the 2016 assault of fellow councillor, Rano Kayser, by smashing a glass jar over his head during a council meeting.
Lungisa was convicted of the assault of a fellow councillor in 2016. He handed himself over to authorities on Thursday and was greeted by a crowd of supporters outside the North End Prison in Port Elizabeth.
Lungisa was convicted of the assault of a fellow councillor in 2016.
Nelson Mandela Bay councillor Andile Lungisa has filed papers with the Constitutional Court to try and avoid serving a two-year prison term.
Lungisa has until Thursday to report to Correctional Services to begin serving his effective two-year jail term for assault with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.