By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
Fullview has been reliably informed that the African National Congress (ANC) Interim Provincial Committee (IPC) in North West has suspended the membership of Premier Job Mokgoro and others in the provincial legislature.
It emerged on Saturday that the committee had decided to suspend Mokgoro’s membership but the reasons were not immediately clear and committee head Hlomane Chauke refused to give details.
The suspension comes after party bosses established Mokgoro was among ANC members of the provincial legislature who defied the party mandate this week by voting for a DA MPL as “a chair of chairs”.
Mokgoro is adamant he remains an ANC member in good standing and said he would remain premier of the politically unstable North West.
“I emerged from a very successful cabinet lekgotla, which had been taking place over the past three days and the resolutions and discussions were very encouraging to take our country forward and to my horror, I moved out of the lekgotla into this story, fake news I suppose, that I have been suspended,” he said.
“Nobody has ever spoken to me, I just got it from the media and that’s all I can really say.”
He said due process was not followed as the structure opted to communicate its decisions through the media and had not told him why his membership ought to be suspended.