Pietermaritzburg-based ANC member of the provincial legislature (MPL) and the citys former deputy mayor, Mervyn Dirks, has become the first prominent ruling party member to be expelled for aligning himself with former president Jacob Zumas uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party an ANC splinter organisation.
Dirks, who was spotted wearing MK party colours during the newly-formed political organisations rally in Maqongqo, Pietermaritzburg, was on Monday served with a letter from ANC provincial secretary Bheki Mtolo, informing the ANC KwaZulu-Natal Legislature MPL that his ruling party membership has been terminated.
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