Jacob Zuma, former president of South Africa, will challenge his expulsion from the African National Congress (ANC) in court if he is not reinstated by January 31st. Zuma was removed from the party in 2023 after forming a new political movement.
CAPE TOWN - The African National Congress (ANC) will be receiving an unexpected and maybe unwanted birthday gift from its former President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday.The ANC is on Wednesday celebrating its 113th anniversary in the Western Cape with an early morning visit to Robben Island – where Zuma and other ANC stalwarts served time for their resistance to apartheid.
Zuma was booted from the party in 2023 when he started his political movement and named it after the ANC’s military wing, uMkhonto weSizwe. The Jacob Zuma Foundation said its patron was irregularly removed from the ANC, adding that if he’s not reinstated by 31 January, it will have no choice but to explore legal remedies to contest his removal after 65 years as a member. “The letter outlines significant procedural and substantive concerns taken by the ANC’s national disciplinary committee and the national disciplinary committee of appeal. These issues detailed in the document highlight irregularities that we believe an independent legal review would likely find invalid,” said the foundation's spokesperson - Mzwanele Manyi
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