APA-Pretoria (South Africa) The fate of former South African president Jacob Zuma’s membership in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) will officially be decided after the country’s 2024 national and provincial elections, ANC national chairperson Gwede Mantashe has disclosed.
The ANC national chair disclosed this in a radio interview monitored on Thursday ahead of the party’s national executive committee meeting at its head office in Johannesburg at the weekend.
Zuma announced last December that he would not campaign for the ANC nor would he vote for it, but would remain a member of the governing party till his dying day.
Mantashe said Zuma took action (to join another party) and “he knows he has broken his membership of the ANC.”
“The ANC will have to formalise that. He will be disciplined later,” Mantashe said.
The formal disciplinary action would be taken following the 2024 polls because the ANC did not want to turn people’s attention from the elections, he said.
“He knows he cannot be a member of the ANC – vote and campaign for something else,” he said.
The ANC chairperson said Zuma was playing political games and knew his time with the party was over by working for uMkhonto weSizwe.
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