TUESDAY, 8.00AM
THE Pan Africanist Congress cancelled its June 16 commemorative rally in Khayelitsha, Cape Town yesterday, after two rival factions of the party came to blows. Supporters of axed PAC president Clarence Makwetu refused to allow deputy secretary general Ike mafole to speak, on the grounds that he had not been elected constitutionally.
In Soweto, a march led by Defence Minister Joe Modise and ANC Women’s League president Winnie Madikizela Mandela, laid wreaths at the grave of Hector Peterson, first victim of the 1976 uprising. They then marched to Orlando police station to hand over a memorandum demanding that police who shot students in 1976 be brought before the Truth Commission.
But the most promising celebrations were held in Durban, where large crowds of ANC and Inkatha youth celebrated jointly at Curries Fountain, the first time in 21 years that the two rival organisations have come together on June 16. Both ANC and IFP leaders called for unity.