 Guidman Tashi calls for a united ANC in the northwest. Rustenberg, African National Congress chairman Guidman Tashi on Sunday again called for unity in the party ahead of the 2019 national and provincial elections. Speaking at the launch of the Nomsima Winnie-Matic Azela Mandela Volunteers Brigade at Sierra Len near Rustenberg in the northwest, he said people would not vote for a faction of the ANC, but rather for a united organization. Factions have no order. Let us be an organization of action as we go and reach out for people. Let us bring development to the people, but also remember to involve them in the process. Our job as volunteers will be easy when we put the ANC first rather than to worship leaders, he said. The ANC in the northwest has shown division, with one faction disrupting ANC events in Rustenberg and Mahiqen. On March 4, an ANC Youth League voter registration rally was disrupted in Boykhan near Rustenberg when men armed with golf clubs and knob carries attacked people at the rally. A similar group attempted to block a public servants march in Mahiqen on March 20. Northwest Ansel Spokesperson Chuyamo Chotetsi said it was time to clean up corruption within the ANC in the province. Acting provincial secretary Susana Danches said the ANC, at its special joint meeting of the Provincial Working Committee, PWC, and National Executive Committee, NEC, members, had agreed that the planned motion of no confidence in premier supermafume Apollo brought by the economic freedom fighters should be defeated. The motion is scheduled to be debated in the legislature on April 17.