Khoza seeks help after death threats

Parliament's presiding officers, Baleka Mbete and Thandi Modise, will meet to discuss the death threats made against ANC MP Makhosi Khoza.

Khoza has spoken out after receiving several death threats and calls to resign following a Facebook post she wrote in which she criticised the morality of the ANC leadership last month.

In the post she urged the ANC leadership to listen to the concerns expressed by the public about the state of the ruling party.

Recently, the ANC Youth League called for her axing and threatened to picket her Durban home.

Khoza, who has said she fears for her children's lives, had her home address circulated on social media but the youth league denied any involvement.

• Parliament's presiding officers to discuss Makhosi Khoza death threatsParliament's presiding officers‚ Baleka Mbete and Thandi Modise‚ will meet to discuss the death threats against ANC MP Dr Makhosi Khoza. 

She has approached both the ANC and parliament for assistance.

Spokesman for parliament Moloto Mothapo said yesterday that Mbete would meet Modise, the chairman of the National Council of Provinces to discuss the matter.

"The speaker would obviously be apprised of the matter through such interaction and possibly pronounce. Therefore, we'd rather not pre-empt such engagement at this stage," he said.

• Khoza lambastes youth league call for her removal as MPAfrican National Congress MP Makhosi Khoza tore into the ANC Youth League in the eThekwini region on Friday after it released a statement saying she should be recalled and said she was a “danger to the unity of the ANC”. 

Attempts to reach ANC spokesman Zizi Kodwa, ANC communications manager Khusela Sangoni, and spokesman for the party in parliament Nonceba Mhlauli for comment were unsuccessful.

This is not the first time that Khoza, who became a well-known public face after chairing the committee that selected the new public protector, has been threatened.

• ANCYL told not to protest outside the house of one of their own MPsDefiant ANC MP Makhosi Khoza said on Tuesday that she has been promised that the eThekwini ANC Youth League will not be protesting outside her house – but she is bracing for the worse anyway. 

She received threats earlier this year after an oversight visit to an Mpumalanga hospital with the public service and administration committee, which she chairs.

Khoza, a former United Democratic Front member had her house burned down in the 1980s and was arrested for her activism.