JACOB ZUMA should be expelled from the African National Congress (ANC) for lending his support to a new political formation, the leader of the country’s Young Communist League said this weekend.

Mzwandile Thakhudi made the call as he addressed the annual commemoration of former South African Communist Party (SACP) general secretary and anti-apartheid hero Joe Slovo, in Soweto’s Avalon Cemetery.

Mr Zuma, who served as South Africa’s president from 2009 to 2018, announced last month that he intends to vote for the newly formed  uMkhonto we Sizwe party in this year’s election. The party is named after the armed wing of the ANC, whose veterans have taken offence at the use of the name.