South Africa
Ramaphosa not suspended, says #ANC─── 07:20 Fri, 07 May 2021
ANC spokesperson Pule Mabe has reiterated that Cyril Ramaphosa was not suspended as the party's president.
The ANC's suspended Secretary-General Ace Magashule wrote a letter to Ramaphosa this week informing him of his suspension.
Ramaphosa has told the party's parliamentary caucus that he received this with shock and a measure of dismay.
Magashule is one of the party's leaders affected by the ANC's 2017 resolution to step aside or face suspension as he is accused of corruption.
Mabe says Magashule could not act on his own accord.
“We are a collective, the president or the deputy president alone does not constitute a collective. But the president, along with other officials, form a collective,” Mabe said.
Mabe said names were presented and a decision was taken by the National Working Committee to advise those who had not stepped aside, to be suspended. He added that members could not express their views unmandated by the organisation.