ANC national chairperson Baleka Mbete said disgruntled party members who plan to start their own movement were wasting their energy, the SABC reported on Sunday.

She was speaking to journalists after addressing Gauteng ANC branches and regions at the Johannesburg City Hall. The meeting was part of a national campaign to explain the ANC national executive committee's decision to recall former president Thabo Mbeki last week.

Mbete, who is South Africa's new deputy president, said disgruntled members should take their grievances to internal structures.

"The ANC believed that anybody who is thinking of going off and forming another party is wasting their energy."

"The rules and practices of the ANC allow people to raise whatever grievances they might have and express themselves. So we think it will be a wrong perspective to go off and form another entity," said Mbete.

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