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Two of them said they wanted to be known as "Raymond Reddington" and "Dembe Zuma" after characters from US crime thriller The Blacklist which involves a wanted criminal helping police take down other criminals on a blacklist.

The MK party, which was founded by former President Jacob Zuma, said in a press conference on Wednesday that Mr Shivambu's removal came after his actions "were found to be against the spirit and prescripts of the MK party's constitution".

More recently, he steered the country out of the bleak "state capture" years of the Zuma administration and then through the difficult Covid lockdowns.

Another man in the video who can be heard singing the lyric "shoot the Boer" at a different rally is former President Jacob Zuma, who left office in 2018.

Perhaps in a nod to the immaturity and attention-seeking nature of the hackers, two of them said they wanted to be known as "Raymond Reddington" and "Dembe Zuma" after characters from US crime thriller The Blacklist which involves a wanted criminal helping police take down other criminals on a blacklist.