Senior ANC member off the hook after man injured

A senior ANC member accused of knocking down a fellow party member when trying to speed off during a fight at a branch elective conference in Tzaneen, Limpopo, has been released from prison.

- Masoka Dube

Ralph "The Rock" Mokgomole, who is the party's ward 32 chair in Tzaneen, was arrested on Thursday last week but released on Monday after the injured man decided to withdraw the case against him.

But soon after being released from hospital over the weekend, the injured man and the other two men were arrested because Mokgomole opened a case of malicious damage to property, accusing them of damaging his car on 16 May, when party members were fighting for positions.

National Prosecuting Authority spokesperson in Limpopo Mashudu Malabi-Dzhangi has confirmed that all the four men had been released after the charges were withdrawn.