Jacob Zuma must face the music, says Mathews Phosa
While on a campaign trail in Mbombela on Saturday, former ANC treasurer general Mathews Phosa questioned how Zuma could lead an organisaiton for ten years and then turn his back on it.
FILE: Former President Jacob Zuma at the Shekainah Healing Ministries Prophetic Pillowcase service in Phillipi, near Cape Town, on March 10, 2024. Picture: GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP
JOHANNESBURG - Former ANC treasurer-general Mathews Phosa says the governing party must be lauded for taking on its ex-president Jacob Zuma.
While on a campaign trail in Mbombela on Saturday, Phosa questioned how someone could lead an organisation for ten years and then turn his back on it.
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He said Zuma, who continues to claim he is an ANC member despite having joined a rival political party, must face the music.
Zuma has been called to an ANC disciplinary committee on Tuesday.
Earlier this year, the party suspended its former president for contravening the party's Constitution when he launched the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party.
Phosa, who was elected alongside Zuma in the historic 2007 Polokwane conference, said that the establishment of MK party was the wrong decision.
"You cannot be a president of a movement for ten years then turn your back against it. What are you trying to say? What message are you sending to young people? That you were not serious when you became president of the country, when people said you must unite the ANC, because now you are dividing it. I hold no grudge against him, but I don’t think he took the best decision of his life."