A
prominent member of South Africa's governing African National Congress
(ANC) has been sentenced to three years in prison for smashing a water
jug on the head of an opposition politician during a brawl in October
2016.
Andile
Lungisa - the former chairman of the party in Nelson Mandela Bay - had
behaved like a common street thug when he assaulted the Democratic
Alliance's Rano Kayser during a heated council meeting, a magistrate's
court ruled, South Africa's News 24 site reports.
Lungisa
will spend his first night in prison after the court refused to give
him permission to appeal against his sentence, it adds.
One year of his sentence was suspended, meaning that he will spend two years in jail.
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