WATCH: Brown Mogotsi fires back at ANC leadership, claims membership still valid amid explosive allegations

Marcus Moloko

Controversial businessman Brown Mogotsi has hit back at the ANC in a scathing video interview, denying the party’s claim that his membership has lapsed.

Mogotsi criticised senior ANC leaders and insisted that he remains a valid member despite the party announcing that his membership has expired.

In a SABC video interview released this week, Mogotsi said: “I am a member of the ANC in good standing. My membership only expires at the end of October.”

He said ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula’s statements that his ANC membership had expired were unwarranted and simply overreaching.

Speaking after the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) meeting this month, Mbalula told reporters that the ANC was in the middle of a renewal process and would not shield those implicated in wrongdoing.

Mbalula conceded that Mogotsi had once been an ANC member but insisted that his membership had since expired.

“Let me explain