Makhosi Khoza quits 'new alien and corrupt ANC'

She made the announcement earlier at Johannesburg's Liliesleaf Farm. 

Khoza had ruffled some feathers within the ANC - with her public criticisms of the ANC leadership and particularly her calls for President Jacob Zuma to step down.

She'd been accused of ill-discipline and charged with bringing the party into disrepute by the ANC KZN and was due to appear before a disciplinary committee.

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But Khoza says she wasn't going to let herself be put through that - referring to the ruling party as a 'new alien' and corrupt in its dealings.

"I knew that there's no more of the ANC. The ANC is too broken to be fixed. I will not be subject to directionless directives that we've been getting. In any case, they would have fired me. Even a structure that has been declared null and void by the courts, Gwede Mantashe continued to give that structure to continue persecuting and disciplining me," she says. 

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