North West ANC Women’s League defies clean-up

The ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) in North West will order its members who were recalled as mayors, speakers and chief whips by the ANC interim provincial committee (IPC) to defy that decision.

While others in the governing party said the decision was influenced by factionalism, the ANCWL claimed the affected deployees were recalled because they had refused to give in to underhand demands related to tenders by some IPC members.

The IPC announced the recall of troikas which consist of mayors, speakers and chief whips in five municipalities