Picture: The ANC councillor. Gotsilekgosi John Doctor Batsi accused of coercing a 15-year-old girl to send him nudes pictures/Screengrab
By OBAKENG MAJE
It does not rain but pours in the ANC in the North West province. This comes after another ANC councillor, Gotsilekgosi Batsi from Mamusa Local Municipality in Schweizer Reneke was rocked by sex scandals.
Batsi allegedly coerced a girl (15) on Facebook to send him nude pictures. However, Batsi’s persuasion was short-lived after the father of the girl reported the matter to law enforcement agencies and eventually filed a protection order against him.
According to the father of the girl, the incident took place in 2021. Last week Monday, the ANC in North West went on a rampage and expelled five councillors from the Mamusa Local Municipality after allegedly failing to ‘toe the party line.’
However, Gontse Kock, Tumisho Tlhole, Mitta Chelechele, Tshepo Khwenenyane, and Lesego Motlapele said they had since appealed the ANC‘s decision to expel them. One of the expelled councillors, Lesego Motlapele alleged that the ANC in North West under the tutelage of ANC provincial chairperson, Nono Maloyi, ‘give a blind eye’ to Batsi’s wrongdoings.
“The circumstances that led to the charges being preferred against us and in what respect, we contend that the entire disciplinary proceedings were flawed in substance and procedure.
“We would also set out our plans to challenge the outcomes of the disciplinary hearing by the ANC Provincial Disciplinary Committee. We would also expose the real motives of the ANC PEC in persecuting the councillors for defending the legitimate policy pronouncements of the ANC and its constitution and program of renewal led by the current sitting ANC President, Cyril Ramaphosa,” Motlapele said.
He further alleged that all ANC councillors at the municipality were summoned by the newly-elected ANC PEC officials to attend the meeting in Rustenburg, wherein, they were instructed among others, to re-instate Batsi as the municipal speaker within seven days.
However, Motlapele alleged that in terms of ANC guidelines, the ANC candidates for the mayoral or speaker positions are required to have five years of experience in local government, no evidence of maladministration against them, and matric.
“The identification of Batsi as the speaker was a contravention of the guidelines because he had misrepresented his qualifications and falsified his curriculum vitae. In his CV, Batsi lied that, he possesses a matric and his matric certificate was misplaced.
“We pause to say that, this is a lie because Batsi does not have a matric. In fact, his recent attempt to pass his matric was last year in 2022, which he still failed. As if this was not enough, Batsi submitted several fake qualifications in the form of five Diplomas and a Doctorate Degree conferred on him by some institution called Timothy Training Institution. Notably, in accordance with his records in his CV, all these Diplomas and Doctorate Degrees were conferred on the same day on 24 August 2019,” he said.
However, Motlapele alleged that all registered Higher Learning institutions in the country, could not confirm the existence and legitimacy of the institution called Timothy Training Institution. He added that they reported the matter to the current ANC PEC, but all is in vain.
Meanwhile, incompetent ANC provincial spokesperson, Tumelo Maruping failed to respond to these allegations, despite being given ample time before publishing this article. Also, Batsi failed to respond to our media inquiry and all responses will be incorporated in the article when received.
The Guardian 