The Economic Freedom Fighters says that it will take the ANC to court over a series of tweets by @ANC_BRANCH saying Commissar Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is attending a court case for rape.
"It came to the attention of the EFF that a Twitter Account whose handle is @ANC_BRANCH has been spreading extremely dangerous and patently sick allegations and rumours that Commissar Mbuyiseni Ndlozi is attending a Court case for a rape case the ANC claims he committed during the EFF 1st National People’s Assembly," the party said in a statement.
The EFF has dismissed the claim with contempt, and says it "will officially go to Court to seek compensation for the ANC’s desperate attempt to damage the good revolutionary posture and face of the EFF".
They reiterated that Ndlozi is working on his PHD Thesis, and will be back as Head of Communications and Spokesperson on the 1st of February 2015.
According to the party the ANC cannot understand this, as their leaders only take leave when "they are attending Court cases for one felony or another".
"We are aware that attempts were made by rapists and sodomists from failed political organisations to instigate newspapers to write this nonsensical allegations about the EFF Spokesperson and were rejected because there is completely nothing of that nature and kind," the EFF said.
Meanwhile @ANC_BRANCH is tweeting no more, as it appears to have been deactivated.
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