Cape Town – The South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) in KwaZulu-Natal says that former president Jacob Zuma did not violate the organisation’s constitution by announcing that he will not vote or campaign for the ANC in the upcoming elections.
Zuma on Saturday drove a new split in the ruling African National Congress, calling for a boycott of the party in a landmark 2024 election.
Driven out of office in 2018 over corruption accusations but retaining significant influence, the 81-year-old Zuma launched an angry new attack on his successor President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The ANC, which has ruled the country since Nelson Mandela led it to victory in the first post-apartheid election in 1994, has lost or expelled several top members in recent months
Zuma expressed his intention to support the newly formed uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party.
While Ramaphosa acknowledged Zuma’s decision and the ANC in KZN criticised his “ill-discipline”, Sanco said that there is no constitutional breach, emphasising their adherence to the constitution, The Citizen reported.
The organisation maintained that Zuma can support another party but should not use Sanco’s emblem and logo for a different organisation.
“There is no constitutional breach so far. Msholozi is still with us and he’s our chairperson. Msholozi can leave here and go home, wear his MK T-shirt and go out to campaign for MK. But the day Msholozi walks out of here wearing a Sanco T-shirt and go out to campaign for MK, that’s when we’ll have a problem because he’ll be using the emblem and logo of Sanco to campaign for a different organisation, which Sanco does not associate itself with,” the report quoted the organisation as saying.
Sanco affirmed its commitment to campaign for the ANC and not the MK party.
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
