ANC warns Zuma’s politics appeal to extremist instincts that could spark social unrest
Zuma has been expelled from the ANC for misconduct after starting and supporting another political party in 2024.
MK Party leader Jacob Zuma, flanked by other aggrieved political parties, briefs the media at the national ROC on 1 June 2024, regarding alleged evidence suggesting vote rigging. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/Eyewitness News
JOHANNESBURG - The African National Congress (ANC) has warned that the politics of its former president, Jacob Zuma, are dangerous and appeal to extremist instincts that could possibly spark social unrest.
Zuma has been expelled from the ANC for misconduct after starting and supporting another political party in 2024.
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ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula said Zuma had disrespected the integrity of the former liberation movement.
“This conduct is irreconcilable with the spirit of organisational discipline and the letter of the ANC constitution. Furthermore, former president Zuma has been running on a dangerous platform that casts doubt on our entire constitutional edifice.”
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Mbalula told journalists on Monday that a notice was sent to the former leader on the outcomes of his disciplinary hearing after being found guilty of misconduct.
The Jacob Zuma Foundation, without delving into the seriousness of the charges he was slapped with, has labelled the disciplinary hearing by the ANC as unjust.
“You have a DC [disciplinary committee] where the actual accused was not given a right to be heard. They just did everything all by themselves,” said the foundation's spokesperson Mzwanele Manyi.
Despite the ANC’s National Disciplinary Committee (NDC) painstakingly laying out the order of events, including Zuma’s non-participation in proceedings, Manyi said he was denied the right to mitigate the sanction meted out.
Manyi has compared the outcome of the internal ANC process to when the Constitutional Court found Zuma guilty of contempt and sentenced him to 15 months behind bars.