According to Agence France-Presse on January 29, South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) announced on the 29th that it would suspend former Jacob Zuma from his party positions. Last month, Zuma said he wanted to launch a new campaign to prepare for the upcoming elections.
According to the report, this decision was expected, and it is also a new manifestation of the internal divisions of the ANC facing this year. **The exact date has not yet been announced, but it should be between May and August.
In the midst of a socio-economic downturn, the ANC was embroiled in a corruption scandal. According to opinion polls, the ANC could lose its parliamentary majority for the first time.
The report quoted ANC Fikile Mbalula as saying: "Zuma and others will be excluded from the ANC because their actions conflict with our values and principles." "The ANC has been in power since the end of apartheid in South Africa in the 90s.
Mbalula further said that a disciplinary investigation had been launched against Zuma and that the ANC would open judicial proceedings for his new activities.
According to the report, Zuma was in power from 2009 to 2018 and had to ** due to corruption incidents and internal party disputes. In December, Zuma, 81, announced that he would run on behalf of a new radical party, the Spear of the Nation, named after the ANC's military establishment during its opposition to apartheid.
However, the former ** did not leave the ANC, which has led some experts to believe that he hopes to be expelled from the ANC in order to win more supporters. A poll last week showed that nearly a third of South Africans supported Zuma.
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