MKP turmoil: Zuma's party unravels weeks ahead of elections
of South Africa’s disruptive former president Jacob Zuma -led uMkhonto weSizwe Party has added more drama to the battle for KwaZulu-Natal in the upcoming national elections on 29 May.Following his ousting, the party founder, Jabulani Khumalo, called for the Independent Electoral Commission of SA to remove Zuma as the party leader and requested the IEC remove him from the party's parliamentary list.
"I think the issue is whether or not the ANC, the IFP, in particular, and the EFF to some extent, although it seems to be closer with MKP, can take advantage of this. To say to the electorate that this is exactly how the government will be if MKP gets in, it's going to be unstable. It's going to be all around the personality of Zuma," he said.
The IEC has already stated that it won’t be getting involved in the power struggle between Khumalo and Zuma, saying: “The commission only acts on instructions from the registered leader of the party. In the present case, Zuma is the registered leader of the MK Party, and this has been so since 10 April 2024.
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