ANC to investigate attack in Oudtshoorn on chairman

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 The ANC says an attempted attack on ANC Western Cape chairman Marius Fransman will be investigated.

Provincial spokesperson Philip Dexter says the ANC will act swiftly and decisively against those responsible.

About 50 residents had tried to attack Fransman at a meeting in Oudtshoorn last Tuesday.

He had gone to Oudtshoorn to answer questions about the town's mayor Gordon April being replaced by Charlie Wagenaar.

Four people were arrested in the ensuing fracas.

Dexter said the ANC believed certain people, including council officials, had plotted to disrupt the process of changing the Oudtshoorn council's leadership.

He said the ANC would investigate and might lay criminal charges against those involved in the alleged plot.