ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe says there’s no evidence to back claims by EFF leader Julius Malema that ANC members Derek Hanekom and Solly Mapaila plotted to oust former president Jacob Zuma together with the EFF.
Malema further alleged that the EFF had a list of ANC members who were ready to leave the organisation if Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma prevailed over Cyril Ramaphosa in the race to become party leader.
Mabe said these are serious allegations and if the claims are true, the pair will be disciplined.
“We will not know whether what is being said is factual or not at such time [when] things that have been said have been tested, confirmed or refuted,” Mabe said.
SACP Spokesperson, Alex Mashilo, said it is public knowledge that the Party had adopted a decision openly calling on Zuma to resign or be recalled if he did not resign, and finally to be removed from office through a motion of no confidence.
He added that SACP mandated First Deputy General Secretary Solly Mapaila to lead the campaign calling on South Africans to unite and rally behind the decision.
“The motion of no confidence, that the ANC announced it was going to vote in favour of if Zuma did not resign in February 2018, was not initiated by the ANC, but first by the EFF,” Mashilo said.
“Malema is the real constitutional delinquent,” Mashilo added.
ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) member Derek Hanekom has also denied the EFF claim that he fed them information about which ANC MPs would vote against Zuma in a motion of no confidence.
On Tuesday, Malema told supporters outside the High Court in Pretoria: “We were working with Derek Hanekom, he was the one who gave us a list of ANC MPs that were going to vote with us against Zuma in the motion of no confidence.”
Hanekom told Eyewitness News that this is not true.
He said he did not give the party a list of who would vote against Zuma, saying it was, in fact, EFF General Secretary, Godrich Gardee, who gave him his own estimate of how many ANC members would support a motion of no confidence in the former president.
Last year, the ANC in Parliament decided it would support a motion of no confidence in the former president if he failed to resign as ordered by the party.
