The Pan Africanist Congress has suspended Limpopo MPL Maxwell Nemadzivhanani for allegedly disrupting the party’s national audit committee on March 23, PAC national spokesperson Waters Toboti said on Saturday.
He said Nemadzivhanani’s suspension would be enforced until his fate in the PAC was decided by the national disciplinary committee. Jabhi Ligege, a provincial executive committee member, was summarily expelled from the PAC.
”He (Ligege) may appeal to the national congress,” Toboti said, adding that the PAC National Executive Committee officially dissolved the Limpopo executive committee.
”On 28 April, the regional chairpersons of the PAC in Limpopo will hold a meeting with Themba Godi, the national organiser, to put in place a new structure for the province.”
Toboti was speaking after the PAC NEC met in Johannesburg on Saturday. The meeting would end on Sunday.
The audit committee was set up in January this year to verify which PAC members would qualify for voting at the party’s upcoming national congress. The creation of this committee came after allegations that some PAC leaders rigged votes at the party’s national conference in Umtata last year.
It was discovered at the congress that under-age voters — most of them from Free State branches — had participated in the elections. Some voters were also not PAC members.
Nemadzivhanani, PAC president Stanley Mogoba, party general secretary Thami ka Plaatjie and PAC deputy president Motshoko Pheko are campaigning for the presidency.
Nemadzivhanani, who is also the PAC’s leader in Limpopo, said: ”This is a way of getting rid of me as a presidential candidate. My province is unhappy. We are dealing with paranoid people who want to cling to power by all means necessary.”
All the presidential candidates were not allowed to attend the meetings of the audit committee, Nemadzivhanani. ”I was not there. By hook or crook, Mogoba wants to be in charge. That is how our people read this, and that is how I read it.”
He said he would not observe the suspension as it was unconstitutional. ‒ Sapa