ANC spokesperson Mahlengi Bhengu said they were not surprised nor shaken by Delport’s departure from the organisation.
Bhengu said:
His exit affirms the correctness and necessity of the ongoing reconfiguration process, which seeks to restore the ANC’s integrity, discipline, and ideological clarity. We have always been aware of his regressive and narrow ideological posture, which sought to divide our people on the basis of apartheid classification.
She said his departure was a confirmation that those who hold such tendencies would not survive in an ANC that is renewed.
“The renewal of our movement is a deliberate act to cleanse it of opportunism, self-interest, and political convenience. Delport’s decision to join a right-wing formation that is openly anti-transformation, anti-justice, and indifferent to the suffering of Palestinians exposes the moral and political bankruptcy of those who abandon the cause of equality.
“His self-ejection validates that the ANC is on the right path; a path that prizes principle over position, and loyalty to the people over loyalty to privilege,” she said.