Breakaway Faction of South Africa’s ANC to Register as Party

The South African Democratic Congress, a breakaway faction of the African National Congress party, is set to register as an official party with the Independent Electoral Commission on Monday in order to take part in next year’s presidential election.

Over the weekend the SADC held a national convention in Johannesburg at which leader Mosiuoa Lekota stated the party was “ready to fight as messengers and representatives of hope for the people.”

The party was formed by former members of the ANC who split from the party following the forced resignation of President Thabo Mbeki. Mbeki had lost his leadership position within the party to Jacob Zuma and would have served out the remaining term as South Africa’s president but after accusations that he interfered in a corruption case involving Zuma he was pressured to step down.

Mbeki has denied the allegations but agreed to step down. Several members inside the party were angered by the ANC’s treatment of Mbeki and decided to split from the party. Lekota, the former defense minister and ANC chairman, became the SADC leader.

Lekota’s deputy, Mbhazima Shilowa, stressed that the SADC would not be satisfied with just being another opposition party but rather, “it is about believing in ourselves and about South Africans believing that this new formation we are going to put in place will contest for political power, not just participate in the elections.”

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