Mahumapelo’s ANC membership ‘remains intact,’ says Ace Supra Mahumapelo has written to the relevant structures in the ANC to appeal his five year suspension Mahumapelo and the acting ANC Women’s league secretary Bitsa Lekonpane were both suspended for five years from the party, after the ANC interim provincial committee (IPC) found them guilty of sowing divisions, following disciplinary hearings held on Monday and Tuesday. Mahumapelo had said he was challenging his suspension and in that respect, will stay an ANC member pending his appeal. In a letter addressed to Mahumapelo circulating on social media, the ANC’s secretary general Ace Magashule confirmed that he (Mahumapelo) had written to the relevant structures to appeal his suspension.