Three "mass resignation" rallies from the ANC are to be staged in the Western Cape this weekend, local party members said on Friday.

They said branches in the Boland, Southern Cape and West Coast regions of the province plan to meet in Citrusdal, Paarl and Plettenberg Bay to hand in their membership cards in advance of next weekend's national convention in Bloemfontein, called by former defence minister Terror Lekota.

A spokesperson for Moegamat Matjiet, former Boland regional secretary of the ANC, said Matjiet and other leading local ANC figures would head the rally at a local sports ground in Paarl at noon on Saturday.

Former deputy defence minister, Mululeki George is billed as a guest speaker at a similar rally in the Southern Cape region of Plettenberg Bay, scheduled to start at noon on Sunday.

Local ANC leader, Zamile Xiphula, who describes himself as an "expired" local councillor, having already resigned from the ANC, maintains the "every ward" in the area will be represented at the rally.

Similar confidence is expressed by former Western Cape provincial ANC executive member Ornel de Beer, who is in charge of the West Coast rally to be held in the Vicky Zimry community hall in Citrusdal on Sunday, starting at noon.

"We expect a really big turnout," he said.

Sapa