Gungubele under fire for Zuma stance
Another ANC MP has pronounced he would vote against the president.
The ANC's parliamentary caucus has called on the party's structures to address MP Mondli Gungubele's "complete collapse of discipline".
It comes after he publicly announced he would support the motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma.
ANC chief whip Jackson Mthembu says: "These utterances are utterly out of order and represent the most extreme form of ill-discipline."
Mthembu says Gungubele has expressly defined his political programme to be that of self-promotion masquerading as political correctness at the expense of the ANC.
"What is particularly unfortunate is that comrade Gungubele who is a long serving leader of the ANC and has been a member of parliament before, has decided to act in such a crude defiant manner not in keeping with democratic centralism and collective leadership as a defining feature of the ANC."
Mthembu insists no ANC member of parliament is a free agent.
"They are deployees of the ANC in Parliament and take their directive from the party, as is the case in all political parties in South Africa. We are calling on the organisation through its constitutional structures to act against the ill-disciplined behaviour of comrade Gungubele. His ill-discipline is no longer an ANC Caucus matter as it is questioning and defying decisions of the ANC as a political centre and authority."
ANC MP Makhosi Khoza continues to face harsh criticism for publicly speaking out against the president.
Khoza has also indicated she would vote against the president during the motion of no confidence.