[IOL] Pretoria - The hotel is located among embassy buildings in suburban Arcadia - and it was in this three-storey establishment that the plan to render the capital city ungovernable was finalised.The Pretoria News can reveal that hours after ANC deputy secretary-general Jessie Duarte named Thoko Didiza as the Tshwane mayoral candidate at Luthuli House on Monday morning, at least 12 people met at the Court Classique Hotel to hatch the unrest.
The meeting was co-ordinated and chaired by a senior ANC official and attended by branch leaders and ward councillors and candidates for the August 3 elections.
Under the command of the official, whose identity is known to the Pretoria News, the faction that was unhappy with Didiza's [a Zulu] appointment came up with a four-point resolution.
The plan was to turn the city into a battlefield if "Sputla" - mayor Kgosientso Ramokgopa - was not back in for another term.
Dubbed the "Court Classique Resolutions", the group vowed to torch all government and city properties, close exits and entry points of all zones, burn the ANC regional office and disrupt all political activities.
Tribalism and Marxism are dangerous combinations of the same toxin. Tribalism being the patriarch. Events in distant Pretoria are little more than a foretelling.