Expelled Jacob Zuma on a mission to 'rescue' ANC from 'sell-outs'

UMKHONTO weSizwe (MK) Party leader Jacob Zuma believes he can “rescue" the ANC from its current leadership under President Cyril Ramaphosa.

- MASHUDU SADIKE

Zuma hauled Ramaphosa and his former party to court yesterday in a bid to challenge his expulsion from the party.

His decision to take the ANC and its leader to court came after the party's disciplinary committee expelled him in July 2024 for publicly endorsing the MK Party ahead of the general elections.

He argued that the disciplinary steps that the ANC followed in 2024 were illegal and violated his constitutional rights.

In a podcast, Zuma stated that he wanted to stay within the ANC to change it from within, claiming that the current leadership had strayed from the principles of the party's founders.

"If I was not a member of that organisation [ANC] it would be very difficult to try to change it from the inside. They would ask what I wanted from their organisation when I was not a member...and that would be the end of the debate," Zuma said.