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Former African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma is suspended from the ANC. Zuma was elected to be the president of the ANC in 2007 and subsequently elected to be the president of South Africa in 2009.
Zuma announced in December 2023 that he was not going to campaign for the ANC in the upcoming 2024 general election. He announced his interest in campaigning for the newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe party. The decision that the ANC is not happy with.
ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula briefed the media at Birchwood conference centre, Ekurhuleni. He announced that “the ANC NEC concluded that exceptional circumstances exist to justify and warrant an immediate decision to suspend former ANC President Jacob Zuma, in line with Rule 25.60 of the ANC Constitution”.
An attempt was made by the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal to convince Zuma not to leave the party. He was not interested in talking to anybody from the ANC. Instead, Zuma went on to address members of the newly formed MK party in KwaZimba on Wednesday. He stated that the “ANC President Cyril Ramaphosa was expelling anyone who disagreed with him,” said Zuma.
It looks like the ANC’s decision has no future bearing on Zuma’s political career. By joining or supporting another political party, Zuma was volunteering to recuse himself from the ANC.
“If justifiable exceptional circumstances warrant an immediate decision of temporary suspension of a member without eliciting the comment or response of such member as contemplated above, the NEC, the NWC, the PEC or the PWC, as the case may be, may summarily suspend such member”, concluded Mbulula.
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