Acting ANC secretary-general Paul Mashatile has referred minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to the ANC disciplinary committee for defying the party by voting for the acceptance of the Section 89 executive report regarding President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala dealings.
Dlamini Zuma was served with a letter from the party’s general treasurer Paul Mashatile on behalf of the general secretary’s office on Thursday stating that she has violated the party’s Constitution.
In a letter sent to Dlamini Zuma from the party’s treasurer general and acting secretary general, Paul Mashatile, the ANC says it is starting the process on the basis of an “act of defiance” in Parliament after she voted against the party line on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, Parliament held a vote to decide whether to adopt the Section 89 report into the burglary at President Cyril Ramaphosa’s Phala Phala farm in Limpopo in 2020.
“According to the report you voted, together with a number of opposition parties, and contrary to the position of the NEC, and the ANC Caucus, for adoption of the Report,” reads the ANC’s letter to Zuma.
This decision follows the report of the ANC’s caucus Chief Whip in Parliament, Pemmy Majodina, about what happened in the recent parliamentary session that discussed Phala Phala’s section 89 report.
According to Mashatile’s correspondence, Majodina told senior officials in her report that several ANC MPs, including Dlamini-Zuma, voted against the position adopted by the NEC and the ANC council. The NEC and caucus decided that ANC members of Parliament would vote against the acceptance of Phala Phala’s report by the Section 89 panel.
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