MK Ex-Mutineers Resign from the ANC

On 31 December 1989, the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) ex-mutineers considered the issue of resigning from the African National Congress (ANC). This followed a document issued on 28 December 1989, officially banning nine members from occupying any position in the ANC, which was circulated at Dakawa in Tanzania. The decision to ban these members followed the announcement made during meetings held by MK Army Chief of Staff, Chris Hani, and Member of the ANC National Executive Committee, Stanley Mabizela, at Mazimbu and Dakawa on 24 December 1989. During the meetings, Mabizela revealed the ANC’s National Executive Committee’s (NEC) decision on the three groups of people previously detained by the organisation from either taking office or not in the organisation’s structures. These three groups were: (a) self-confessed enemy agents who had been imprisoned and released unconditionally. This group was allowed to take part in and occupy positions in the ANC structures; (b) enemy agents who had been imprisoned and released conditionally. This group was not allowed to take office in the ANC structures; and (c) a group of 1984 mutineers who had been imprisoned by the ANC and forbidden from taking office in the organisation’s structures. On 16 November 1988, exactly four years and nine months after the beginning of their imprisonment, the mutineers were summoned to the biggest cell in an Angolan MK Camp 32 (aka "Morris Seabelo Rehabilitation Centre" or colloquially as “Quatr