Although the ANC Youth League in the Free State has cancelled its plans to burn piles of a newly-released book, a report suggests that the league is stuck with loads of copies.
The book, by author Pieter-Louis Myburgh, contains damning allegations about ANC secretary general Ace Magashule and is titledThe group cancelled its plans to set the books alight at the Mangaung rubbish site next week, after the ANC's leadership at Luthuli House intervened and condemned their intentions., the league is allegedly stuck with a"garage full" of the copies.
On Wednesday, ANCYL Free State spokesperson Sello Pietersen told News24:"After we had released our statement with [the] intention to burn the book because we disagree with its propaganda, the ANC leadership engaged us and indicated that burning the book will not assist anything in terms of achieving our objectives, and that they did not agree with the burning of the book.
It emerged on Thursday that the V&A Waterfront had cancelled the Cape Town leg of the author's book launch and announced that it would instead take place at Cape Talk studios in Somerset Square, Greenpoint on Thursday evening.
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