Anc To Decide Whether Free States Matjhabeng Mayor Must Step Aside

The ANC will decide on whether Matjhabeng Municipality Mayor in the Free State, Thanduxiolo Khalipha should continue in his position or step aside . This after Odendaalsrus Magistrates Court fined him R5,000 or three months imprisonment for common assault, as well as two and three months' imprisonment or R3 000 for two counts of crimen injuria.

He assaulted his bodyguards when they were trying to remove him from an angry crowd, during an Imbizo in Kutlwanong in February this year.

Calls have been made for the party to remove him.

Disgruntled residents also took to the streets marching to pressurise the governing party to remove him. Throughout the case, the ANCs provincial leadership has maintained that Khalipha still holds his mayoral position.