ANC says Zuma well within his rights to approach court to challenge his axing

JOHANNESBURG - The African National Congress (ANC) says its former President Jacob Zuma is well within his rights to approach the courts and challenge his axing from the party. 

On Thursday, the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party released a media statement saying its leader has launched a high court challenge over terminating his ANC membership. 

The ANC expelled Zuma in 2024 after finding him guilty of bringing the party into disrepute by forming another political organisation. 

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Speaking on the sidelines of a Freedom Charter anniversary event in Soweto on Thursday, ANC deputy general secretary, Nomvula Mokonyane weighed in on the matter.

“Nobody is going to be deprived of the right to use all the institutions that protect this hard-won democracy. Let him go through that. These courts are meant exactly to deepen democracy in line with the Freedom Charter. Forty years ago, you would not dare take any government department or any structure of the apartheid government to court. You would be deemed a terrorist.”