Gauteng ANC chairperson Paul Mashatile says the party has suffered a huge blow with outspoken MP Makhosi Khoza announcing her resignation as an ANC member on Thursday. Khoza‚ a strong critic of President Jacob Zuma‚ has had a rocky relationship with the party after speaking out against corruption and also publicly announcing that she would support the no-confidence motion against Zuma held in a secret ballot held in Parliament on August 8. "Any one person leaving the organisation is a great loss to us and I’m sure as we change the way we do things in the ANC, we would wish that some of them would come back," said Mashatile. "We are busy doing that and you know we have a conference coming where there will be new programmes [and] there will be change of leadership." Mashatile was speaking on the sidelines of the Human Settlement Developments Summit in Boksburg‚ east of Johannesburg‚ on Thursday‚ which he attended in his capacity as the MEC for Human Settlements in Gauteng. "The ANC is...
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