ANC should have charged JZ over state capture – Gungubele

ANOTHER ANC MP has broken ranks with the party, saying he is going to vote against President Jacob Zuma on the motion of no-confidence when it is tabled in Parliament next month.

Former Ekurhuleni mayor Mondli Gungubele ( told Independent Media that the ANC should have charged Zuma for his links to state capture following leaked e-mails of the Guptas’ involvement in the affairs of state.

The ANC in Gauteng has not said what will happen to Gungubele.

However, yesterday he remained steadfast that he would not support Zuma in the no-confidence motion.

Gungubele also came out in support of another ANC MP, Makhosi Khoza, for speaking out against Zuma and express-

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ing her intention not to support the president.

Khoza has been hauled before the disciplinary committee by the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal over her remarks.

She has cried foul and accused the ANC of singling her out. She claims that in fact many people in the ANC have also spoken out against Zuma, calling for him to go.

Gungubele said Zuma has brought the ANC into disrepute and should have been charged by the party.

Former finance minister Pravin Gordhan and former tourism minister Derek Hanekom are among MPs who are also expected to vote against Zuma.

“My attitude is very simple in this matter. “There is a lot of i nfor mation out there which requires the president to account, and yet our organisation does not make him account,” Gungubele said. “Instead our organisation opts to shoot a fly called Makhosi Khoza. “What Makhosi is doing is crying out for help for things happening in this organisation,” he said. Gungubele said there was a clause in the ANC that if anyone has brought the organisation into disrepute he or she should be charged. Zuma has admitted that the Guptas are his friends and the ANC is divided because of the Guptas, Gungubele said. The president needed to be charged and not Khoza, said Gungubele.

“How then do you charge Makhosi? The ANC president cannot secure my confidence,” he said.

Asked whether he was not afraid that he could be charged over his remarks, Gungubele said he believed in the values and traditions of the ANC.

He said when you join the ANC you are driven by conviction and he still believes in that conviction.

“The NEC (national executive committee) is a legitimate structure and the decisions they are taking around the president are ill-advised and not in line with what the organisation stands for,” said Gungubele.

ANC spokesperson in Gauteng, Nkenke Kekana, could not be reached for comment and ANC national spokesperson Zizi Kodwa was also not available for comment.