More ANC members go

CAPE TOWN – Former SA Communist Party treasurer and prominent ANC member Phillip Dexter and former ANC Women’s caucus parliamentary chairperson Kiki Rwexana yesterday formally resigned from the ANC.

Briefing the media in Cape Town, they said they would participate in the national convention called by Terror Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa in Gauteng this weekend. Dexter also recently resigned from the SACP.Rwexana is also a former deputy secretary-general of the ANC Women’s League (ANCWL), and is the first sitting ANC MP to resign from the party and from Parliament.Dexter said he was leaving the ANC with a great deal of sadness, but the ANC had undergone a “transformation” since 2004.Personal ambition, revenge, and vindictiveness had become the order of the day.The current ANC leadership was at the forefront of undermining the Constitution, Dexter said.Rwexana said she too was sad to leave the party, which had been her second home for a long time.However, “today the ANC is very cold.”It depends on which side you are supporting.”Those who differed from what was expected of them were treated as being anti-ANC.”The ANC we used to know is no more.There’s hatred and anger in the ANC now,” she said.Nampa-SapaDexter also recently resigned from the SACP.Rwexana is also a former deputy secretary-general of the ANC Women’s League (ANCWL), and is the first sitting ANC MP to resign from the party and from Parliament.Dexter said he was leaving the ANC with a great deal of sadness, but the ANC had undergone a “transformation” since 2004.Personal ambition, revenge, and vindictiveness had become the order of the day.The current ANC leadership was at the forefront of undermining the Constitution, Dexter said.Rwexana said she too was sad to leave the party, which had been her second home for a long time.However, “today the ANC is very cold.”It depends on which side you are supporting.”Those who differed from what was expected of them were treated as being anti-ANC.”The ANC we used to know is no more.There’s hatred and anger in the ANC now,” she said.Nampa-Sapa