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ANC Nelson Mandela Bay chairperson Nceba Faku last night incited more than 100 party members to burn down The Herald newspaper.

A senior ANC spokesperson almost immediately distanced the party from the inflammatory call, and appealed for political maturity and restraint from ANC leaders.

Standing at the entrance to the City Hall with an ANC flag on his shoulder, Faku said the party was celebrating an "important battle that is between the ANC and the media".

"The primary battle of the ANC has been with the media, especially The Herald, in this region. Down with white political parties, down! Down with those who vote for white political parties, down!"

The party retained control of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro with 51.9percent .

Faku was implicated in the Kabuso forensic report into municipal land sales and tenders, commissioned by the provincial Department of Local Government and Traditional Affairs.

The Herald went to the courts to force Local Government MEC Mlibo Qoboshiyane, who doubles as ANC provincial spokesperson, to release the report.

Yesterday Faku told the crowds: "Down with The Herald, down, down! Burn The Herald! Fire to The Herald!"

"The Herald dictated that (DA leader Helen) Zille and (Cope’s Smuts) Ngonyama would stand here today and run the metro. The Herald was on the forefront of that … Passop The Herald, Passop!

"If you can’t draw the line today … We have to draw the line.

"We have to go back to the UDF (United Democratic Front) approach. We sacrificed our families, we gave our flesh and blood for the cause of the struggle.

"Go and burn The Herald! We will face a bullet with a bullet!"

As Faku was talking, ANC Motherwell NU8 branch secretary Zola Mayedwa approached a Herald reporter and advised him to hide his notebook.

To loud applause, Faku said black people who did not like other black people and their organisations should be driven into the sea or go to Europe.

"We need a Malema in this town, we need a Malema," said Faku, before handing the microphone to ANC MP Cedric Frolick.

Frolick said: "The DA and the media campaigned against the ANC."

He said they would not allow the "racism" of the DA-led Western Cape to divide Bay citizens.

SA National Editors’ Forum chairperson Mondli Makhanya last night said they were horrified that a senior political leader in this country could utter such inflammatory words by calling for the burning of newspapers.

He said the last time political leaders called for people to burn literature was during the time of the Nazis in the 1930s.

Makhanya called for the ANC’s national leadership to act quickly against Faku and take the strongest action against him for putting the ANC in the same light as Hitler and Italy’s late dictator Benito Mussolini.

He said the words uttered by Faku were a criminal offence and should be treated as such.

The Herald Editor Heather Robertson said: "I am deeply disturbed by Mr Faku’s threat to burn this newspaper.

"It is shocking that he attacks all of us who work for The Herald on the night of what should be the ANC’s victory celebration.

"Mr Faku clearly does not grasp the freedom of expression clause in the Bill of Rights which was drafted by the ANC.

"Mr Faku’s statements go against the very basis of what the ANC has so valiantly fought for by incitement of imminent violence against The Herald and all who work for it, including members and supporters of the ANC."

Qoboshiyane said: "As the ANC we distance ourselves from such statements.
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sauce

Ja boet. Kyk noord en f** voort.
 
Faku is a racist, thief, swindler and liar.

The structures of our government are too scared to touch him, even with all the proof that has been provided to them on numerous occasions.

Why?
 
Well PE deserves that #%#@%#@ retard they voted to keep them in power.

Edit: The non voters tooooooooooooo you deserve it.

For the rest I'm sorry lads.
 
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volstruis said:
see edit.
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No problem with your initial post...

There have been so many investigative reports, Audit reports, hard evidence obtained via all channels, newspaper reports, etc. pointing out Faku's criminality, that is is astonishing to see that he has never been hauled before a court or an internal enquiry.
 
MickeyD said:
Faku is a racist, thief, swindler and liar.

The structures of our government are too scared to touch him, even with all the proof that has been provided to them on numerous occasions.

Why?
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maybe its because he can make n lekker pot pap, so if they do something to him, all of his buddies in the gov wont get such lekker pap anymore.... :D

the ANC say what they want, when they want cause thats the way a communist party is run.:sick:
 
LoneWolf said:
maybe its because he can make n lekker pot pap, so if they do something to him, all of his buddies in the gov wont get such lekker pap anymore.... :D

the ANC say what they want, when they want cause thats the way a communist party is run.:sick:
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Maybe his Robben Island credentials gives him an Immunity Card?
 
EtienneK said:
Why so much hate? :(
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cause in the 17yrs of the reign of the ANC, everything went from worse to f'ed up... and people are still blinded by their lies and false promises...yes, well done for "the fight to freedom" and apartheid is gone and all that, but build a fair and better country, not "lets see how much more i can be corrupt than you!" and "shoot the boer" struggle songs....my a$$.... its sad to see such a beautiful country with so much potential being run by brainless idiots :mad: and we can do jack$#$% to change it...
 
Sadly the only soloution I see for this at the moment is violence...these people will never be brought to justice in any other way.
 
Bid to axe SA's 'worst mayor'

From being the worst mayor in SA in 2002 to Chairman of the ANC in PE in 2011 - this is the reward for total incompetence.

2002-03-13 18:16

Cape Town - The Democratic Alliance has formally requested that President Thabo Mbeki axe the man it calls "the worst mayor in South Africa" - the Nelson Mandela metropole's Nceba Faku.

It has also asked the Scorpions to investigate how more than R200 000 from a development trust chaired by Faku came to be invested in a tyre retreading business of which he is a director.

DA spokesperson for local government Gloria Borman said on Wednesday that the number of scandals that had "engulfed" Faku since he took office as executive mayor in October 2000 was "far too long and comprehensive to ignore any longer".

"As mayor of this city he's just stumbled from one crisis to another," she said.

Despite the fact that the metropole, which includes Port Eizabeth, Uitenhage and Despatch, had debt arrears of over R700 million, Faku had seen fit to "lavish himself with luxuries".

In a letter sent to Mbeki on Wednesday, Borman called on the president to stick to his promise of clean and effective government.

She attached a list detailing "ongoing incidents of mismanagement and alleged corruption" by Faku, an African National Congress appointee.

Among them were that he:

Splashed out R450000 on his inauguration party;
Flew business - rather than economy class, a decision that means a difference of R20 000 on a flight to London;
Landed the council with a R1.5 million settlement bill after controversially trying to fast-track a R20 million debt recovery contract;
Spent his mayoral discretionary fund on "numerous dubious personal expenses", including his own traffic fines, clothes and, reportedly, his rates bill; and
Bought a mayoral chair that cost between R12 000 and R40 000.
In addition, the development trust headed by Faku, which received a R500 000 municipal grant in 1999 and a matching amount from the provincial government, revealed last month it had spent a mere R3 200 on development projects.

At the end of last month it was also revealed that the trust invested R213 842 in Faku's tyre company.

The treasurer of the trust and four other men are currently facing charges of fraud totalling R515 000.

Faku's spokesperson Roland Williams said however that Faku had submitted "proper reports" on the issue to the municipality and the provincial government, and it was for those bodies to decide if the reports were flawed.

"Neither of them have said that," Williams said.

He said the ANC had appointed Faku as mayor, and until the next election, the ANC was the only body that could unseat him.

"The provincial executive council of the ANC, after having assessed and evaluated the performance and political leadership and development of the municipality, issued a vote of confidence in Mr Faku as the executive mayor," he said.

He said the DA would do better to concentrate on developmental issues in the municipality, rather than continually attacking the mayor.

Williams also said that in October last year, Faku won a national award as best mayor in South Africa, while the metropole was rated second-best municipality in the country.

Last week, amid rumours that the ANC was planning to give Faku his marching orders, ANC Eastern Cape secretary Humphrey Maxegwana announced his party had "full confidence" in Faku.
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