MK Party leader Jacob Zuma to appeal expulsion from ANC

JOHANNESBURG - The leader of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party, Jacob Zuma will on Friday appeal his expulsion from the African National Congress (ANC).

The ANC's national disciplinary committee is due to meet virtually on Friday morning to consider Zuma’s appeal against his expulsion.

Zuma was expelled from the ANC in July after he was found guilty of bringing the party into disrepute by forming and campaigning for another political organisation.

At a recent media briefing, Zuma made two Freudian slips where he mistakenly referred to the ANC when he meant the MK Party.

"Politicians who are able to put things and see what is right and wrong, they have been coming to the ANC. Sorry, eish, this thing is killing me."

The former ANC president said he would die a member of the revolutionary movement.

The recently drawn-up MK Party constitution permits members to have dual memberships with different political parties, provided it is for strategic reasons.

Zuma will be represented at the disciplinary committee hearing by ANC member Tony Yengeni.