This utterance by Saul comes after four ANC Members of Parliament, including former North West premier and ANC Chair Supra Mahumapelo, former Free State MEC Mosebenzi Zwane, and Cogta Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, among others voted for the adoption of an independent panel report into Phala Phala. On Tuesday, 214 ANC MPs voted against the adoption of the report which said President Cyril Ramaphosa might have breached his oath of his office after he allegedly failed to report a breaking-in at his Phala Phala farm where millions of dollars were stolen.

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Saul says “on a daily basis opposition parties expel their public representatives that defy the party line, and when its ANC (parties) want to portray such behaviour (of defying the party line) as honourable.

Speaking to SABC following the Parliamentary sitting Dlamini-Zuma said she felt aggrieved after she and other members were not allowed to raise their views at last week's National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting regarding the adoption of the report of the Independent Panel of Experts on the Phala Phala saga in the National Assembly.

Mahumapelo, a staunch supporter of former president Jacob Zuma, maintained that president Ramaphosa could have handled the saga differently. Mahumapelo also revealed that the party’s upper structure NEC had requested a 10-minute meeting with him yesterday over the utterances made about the president and the NEC.

“Last week I said I have the conviction to pursue what the African National Congress (ANC) stands for, what the ANC is about and all of us should be doing that. So I still remain in that particular position but I will hear what the meeting has to say, I have written something this morning (Tuesday, 13 December 2022) because some of us could not be allowed to speak in the caucus and discussions could not happen productively and so on, so I have written to the leadership about my own view because I was hoping to speak but unfortunately one could not speak,” Mahumapelo added.

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