Carl Niehaus

Carl Niehaus (born 25 December 1959) is the former spokesman for South African ruling party the African National Congress, former spokesman for Nelson Mandela, and was a political prisoner after being convicted of treason against South Africa's former government. He stepped down as ANC spokesman in February 2009 after admitting to maladministration of his own finances, extensive borrowing from political contacts and fraud, notably feigning the death of his mother, Magrietha Niehaus‚ in order to get out of 4.3 million rand debt owed to a landlord. He is a vocal supporter of former President Jacob Zuma. On 12th December 2022 Niehaus was expelled from the ANC. In 2023 he set up his own party - the African Radical Economic Transformation Alliance - and then abandoned it to join the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) at the end of 2023.

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