Ekurhuleni - African National Congress national executive committee member and Ekurhuleni Mayor Mzwandile Masina has hit out at the party's alliance partners, the MK [Umkhonto WeSizwe] Council and has asked for the Gupta family to leave the ANC alone.
"Comrade President let's ask the Guptas to give the ANC space to conduct the revolution," Masina said on Friday.
"We don't mean to choose friends for leaders of the ANC, but there's a limit to everything. People died in the ANC and for this country we can't surrender the sovereignty of the ANC," Masina added.
He delivered a short speech before President Jacob Zuma gave a keynote address at the Umkhonto WeSizwe Military Veterans Association's 5 th national conference which is taking place throughout the weekend.
The conference took place on the back of several disagreements between the association and former senior leaders of MK, who were bandied under the name MK Council. The council announced that it would not participate in the conference or a proposed consultative conference set to take place in June because none would yield any fruit.
The grouping which emerged towards the end of 2016 said it was there to help the ANC change its downward trajectory.