Her death comes barely a month after the death of her son in hospital on Christmas eve last year after suffering a minor stroke.

This comes days after parties failed to reach an agreement on who to work with in the ANC’s proposed GNU after the May polls failed to produce an outright winner.

Zuma says that the MK Party has instructed its legal teams to take any steps, inside and outside South Africa, to ensure that justice is served.

South Africa’s Home Affairs Department alleging a potential “identity fraud” by Adetshina’s mother to secure South African citizenship further escalated the controversy.

The party made the announcement at its media briefing in Durban on Tuesday.

The DA leader was addressing the media in Cape Town after a meeting of the party’s Federal Council.