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By Sihle Mavuso 
2h ago
Durban – A letter, allegedly written by 10 members of the Mandeni ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, claims that there are plans to expel former President Jacob Zuma from the ruling party.
The letter came out on Monday and has already reached its intended recipient, the ANC in KZN. Its authors demand that the ruling party hold a national general council (only the national office can convene the council, not the provinces) so that they can seize the opportunity to speak as members.
However, the letter did not pass the basic verification tests as it was only sent to the ruling party via email, however the same email bounced when Independent Media tried to contact the author for more clarity.
The email address was the only contact information in the letter that made several serious allegations, some of them blatantly outlandish and false.
Speaking about the plan to oust Zuma, the letter states that the ongoing criminal charges emanating from the gun business would be the weapon for his opponents.
“We have concrete evidence of the existence of a group of leaders who have secretly approached activists in the province with the purpose of using them to profile and promote Cyril Ramaphosa in KwaZulu Natal while discrediting all those who are perceived as supporters of the president. Zuma. Most disturbing and outrageous in all this is his plan to have President Zuma expelled from the ANC, “the letter states.
In addition, they named the five high-ranking members of the ANC who come from KZN and who are known supporters of Ramaphosa and who they claim want Zuma to withdraw using the ruling party’s “step aside” resolution.
According to them, the leaders recently met in Mpangeni and Pietermaritzburg where the clandestine plot to get rid of Zuma was hatched and further honed.
But his claims were roundly refuted by the ANC in the province.
Provincial spokesman Nhlakanipho Ntombela said the leaders named in the letter told the party that they had never been involved in the plot they are accused of hatching.
“Yes, we have received it (the letter). We are still going to process it first by finding out the person who wrote it, as they have no contact details other than the email address and the other 10 signatories. Second, we can confirm that the alleged people in the letter dispute the content and the alleged plot they are said to be involved in. The worst thing is that they have never known each other as that group of people for a long time, “said Ntombela.
The same letter also dipped into the allegedly pending arrest of ANC Secretary General Ace Magashule and claimed that he would be detained before the end of this year.
“Despite recent speculation, we know that the Secretary General, Comrade Ace Magashule, will be arrested in December 2020 and will be forced to step aside,” the members stated in the letter.
It’s worth noting that the Hawks have publicly said they had no plans to arrest Magashule. Magashule himself told the SABC while campaigning in Lenasia, Johannesburg on Sunday that his lawyers were in contact with law enforcement agencies regarding the matter.
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