Pietermaritzburg-based ANC member Mervyn Dirks has been expelled from the party for aligning himself with former president Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party.
Pietermaritzburg-based ANC member of the provincial legislature (MPL) and the city’s former deputy mayor, Mervyn Dirks, has become the first prominent ruling party member to be expelled for aligning himself with former president Jacob Zuma ’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party — an ANC splinter organisation.
Dirks, who was spotted wearing MK party colours during the newly-formed political organisation’s rally in Maqongqo, Pietermaritzburg, was on Monday served with a letter from ANC provincial secretary Bheki Mtolo, informing the ANC KwaZulu-Natal Legislature MPL that his ruling party membership has been terminated. “This letter serves that you have been expelled from the African National Congress because you have joined another political party, contravening rule 25.17.13 of the ANC constitution,” said the lette
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