ANC wants mayor to be disciplined for calling Ramaphosa a 'stinking sellout'
The ANC says party members who insult President Cyril Ramaphosa should be disciplined for instigating disunity within the organisation.
"The ANC condemns in the strongest terms insults directed at the person of the president, Cde Cyril Ramaphosa, by ANC leaders as well as members on social media," spokesperson Pule Mabe said in a statement.
The party's comments follow a report in The Citizen newspaper that the mayor of Dihlabeng Local Municipality in the Free State, Lindiwe Kambule Makhalema, called Ramaphosa a "sellout" in a closed Facebook group.
Makhalema was responding to a question a fellow party member had posed in the group.
Only Facebook users who have been verified as loyal ANC members are accepted in the group through a vetting process.