ANC deputy provincial chairperson China Dodovu faces the possibility of suspension from the party’s structures after the provincial executive committee (PEC) recommended that resolutions taken at the party’s 53rd conference be applied to him.

Dodovu, who is also the local government and traditional affairs MEC, was arrested last Monday in connection with the murder of ANC regional secretary Obuti Chika.

At its Mangaung conference in December last year the ANC underscored the need for moral integrity and restoration of the party’s core values, declaring that members implicated in damaging allegations should relinquish their positions until they are cleared.

The PEC met last Thursday and resolved that the provincial working committee (PWC) would work together with the party’s national executive committee (NEC) to decide Dodovu’s fate.

In a statement ANC provincial spokesperson Kenny Morolong said: “The PEC reaffirmed the 53rd conference resolutions on the need to uphold the moral integrity and restore the core values of the ANC and in this regard resolved that the PWC must process the implications of the above conference resolution in consultation with the national executive committee on ANC public representatives alleged to be involved in the brutal assassination of Chika.”

Morolong added that the party was disturbed by the way groups of people claiming to be ANC members squared off outside the Klerksdorp Magistrate’s Court where Dodovu and seven other co-accused appeared last Wednesday.

One group waved placards written “Hands-off Dodovu” while the other countered with “Hands-on Dodovu”.

“The PEC is perturbed by the anarchy exhibited outside the court by rowdy crowds. We view the death of Chika as a criminal act and reject any attempts to drag the ANC’s name in support or condemnation of the arrested suspects,” he said.

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