DURBAN - FORMER ActionSA leader Makhosi Khoza’s alleged collusion with individuals planning to oust party leader Herman Mashaba was one of the reasons that prompted her axing from the party.
This was revealed yesterday when the party officially announced her sacking. Khoza, a former ANC MP, who joined ActionSA as an eThekwini Municipality councillor, had not been seen at council meetings for a while. She was also the chairperson of the Municipal Accounts Committee, but had been absent at its weekly meetings.
ActionSA said the decision to terminate her membership was taken at a meeting on Monday following the recommendations of its ethics and disciplinary committee. The committee said that following a series of public outbursts in January, the leadership instituted a disciplinary inquiry into her conduct. The charges included:
♦ Bringing the party into disrepute.
♦ Deliberately acting in a way that negatively affected the party.
♦ Acting in a manner that caused disunity in the party. Michael Beaumont, the party’s national chairperson, said the disciplinary hearing was unanimous in finding Khoza guilty on all charges and recommending the termination of her membership.
“The evidence brought against Dr Khoza included numerous public utterances and comments made to the media that were deemed to have been made with the intention of bringing ActionSA into disrepute,” said Beaumont.
In addition to this, according to Beaumont, evidence before the panel demonstrated communication with ringleaders of a group of dismissed party members from Soweto who had previously been found to have acted to deliberately destabilise the party.
“In this communication, Khoza and the ringleader of this group were found to be plotting to ‘deal with’ Mashaba. This conversation took place in close proximity to a protest by these former members outside the City of Johannesburg council chamber, in which they can be heard chanting Khoza’s name,” Beaumont said.
The disciplinary report recommended her axing, saying there was no reasonable explanation for her continued abuse of the party.
It described her as being prone to conspiracy theories, aggressive behaviour and even continuing to threaten the party with further damaging its reputation.
Beaumont said the party held no illwill towards Khoza, and she remains an individual who had played an important role in South African politics.
When approached, Khoza indicated that she had not been officially briefed by the party on her axing.
“I received the news from a news channel this morning. I have no comment,” she told The Mercury yesterday.
University of KwaZulu-Natal political analyst Siyabonga Ntombela said Khoza’s future in politics was over, as no party would want to be associated with her now.
“If she still wants to be an activist, she should consider joining a civil society organisation because politics is about reputation, and she has been ruined by the axing,” said Ntombela.
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