Defiant Andile Lungisa refuses to accept ANC suspension

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Defiant Andile Lungisa refuses to accept ANC suspension

Andile Lungisa, a Nelson Mandela Bay councillor has told the ANC that the decision to suspend him was without due processes having been followed

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Thurgood Marshall

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(1880) P.B.S. Pinchback, “Campaign Speech for GOP Presidential Candidate James G. Garfield."

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