The issue of the Khutsong demarcation was not on the agenda of an African National Congress delegation visiting Carletonville, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Saturday.
The eight-member team from the party’s national executive committee (NEC) met other ANC members and community members behind closed doors in the troubled North West area.
They were led by former South African National Defence Force chief Simpiwe Nyanda. He said their visit to the Merafong municipality was aimed at uniting the party in the region and campaigning for the upcoming general election.
”That is not on the agenda, probably on the next meeting, we are going for elections next year, we want to organise the ANC on the ground, we want to go to the people, we want to go to the membership of the ANC so that we mobilise membership of the ANC so that they mobilise the rest of society to vote for the ANC, its one of our priorities,” he said.
While the meeting was in progress in Carletonville hundreds of residents gathered at the local stadium in protest.
A community spokesperson said no committee member would be allowed in Khutsong until the demarcation issue was resolved.
” … the mandate that we got here, from the community of Merafong in Khutsong here, there was a lot of people from all the farms here around Carletonville … they said [to] themselves ‘No, there’s no chance that we can give the NEC to come to Khutsong’,” he told the broadcaster.
The community of Khutsong was still in the dark about their fate pending a response from the Constitutional Court. – Sapa