Khoza again defies ANC authority
HOURS after the KwaZulu-Natal ANC charged MP Makhosi Khoza with two counts of ill-discipline for statements made in four Facebook posts‚ she again defied the party’s authority.
Last night, she used the same platform to air her views about the party leadership.
“I’m being persecuted because I can no longer tow [sic] the party line,” she said.
“I cannot accept corruption‚ looting‚ a disregard for the people who brought us to power and the propping up of growing Kleptocracy.
“My ANC suffocates reason‚ morality and ethical behaviour.
“It is within this context that I have chosen not to accept the police protection that was finally offered to me by parliament and the SAPS.” Khoza was slapped with two counts of ill-discipline for her posts on July 7‚ 20 (two posts) and 21, as well as remarks she made on July 18 at the Conference for the Future of South Africa in Johannesburg‚ which was organised by Save SA.
“My statements in the recent past simply mirror that which millions of South Africans have been saying‚ they have had enough.
“To side with the ANC of today requires me to disregard my moral fibre.
“I am no longer willing to be an apologist for an organisation and a leader that has lost its way‚” she wrote.
“Earlier today I received formal notification of the disciplinary charges the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has chosen to level against me.
“This morning‚ Comrade Ravi Pillay [told] me the disciplinary hearing will take place on September 10.
“I am consulting with my attorney on this matter‚” she wrote on Facebook.
In the recent past‚ she said, several senior ANC officials, including MPs, had publicly raised their concerns regarding President Jacob Zuma.
Khoza asked why no action had been taken against those individuals as they too‚ outside of party structures‚ had spoken out against Zuma and called for him to step down.
“The ANC will need to explain why I am being singled out . . . the ANC will not tolerate dissenting voices and these charges are proof of that.
“I was raised in an ANC that spoke truth to power.
“I spoke truth to power in the ’80s and ’90s and I want to belong to an ANC that still values its founding principles‚” she wrote.
Despite not agreeing with the nature of the charges‚ she said she would appear before the disciplinary hearing – although she is not confident that it will be a fair process.