Zuko Komisa

Former President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma will be backing new political party, uMkhonto we Sizwe in the 2024 elections, but will not be leaving the African National Congress (ANC).
Addressing media at the Orlando East Hall in Soweto on Saturday, 16 December, Zuma expressed that the “ANC had been reduced to organisation hardly respected by those it sought to liberate.”
After serving as ANC president from 2007 to 2017, Zuma revealed Umkhonto We Sizwe, named after the ANC’s paramilitary wing, will be receiving his vote in the upcoming elections.
“I have decided that I cannot and will not campaign for the ANC of Ramaphosa. My conscience will not allow me to lie to the people of South Africa, and to pretend that the ANC of Ramaphosa, is the ANC of Luthulu, Tambo and Mandela.
It is not the ANC that I joined and went to jail for.
In this regard, I fully agree with other former leaders like Thabo Mbeki and others, that it will be a betrayal to campaign for the ANC of Ramaphosa.
However, I also believe that it is not enough to withdraw from the ANC campaign which will lead our people to more misery, poverty, racism, unemployment, deepening loadshedding, and a government led by sellouts, and apartheid collaborators.
It is also our duty to guide our people on what to do in order to save our revolution from our enemies, and to achieve the society envisaged by the freedom charter.
I therefore wish to announce that in 2024, I will vote for the uMkhonto we Sizwe – MK Party.”
Jacob Zuma on his decision to back uMkhonto we Sizwe in the upcoming elections and not the ANC
“In 2024, I will vote for uMkhonto We Sizwe party”.#KayaNews #PresidentZuma #NPM pic.twitter.com/hEdRm1K8KM
— Kaya 959 News (@KayaNews) December 16, 2023
uMkhonto we Sizwe has already been registered with the IEC. Zuma called on South Africans to vote for the party, or other progressive parties that seeks total liberation and the return of land to the rightful owners, the African people.
Zuma’s backing of the newly formed party does not mean that he is no longer a member of the ANC however, and he made it clear that he will forever be a part of the ruling party.
“This is the African National Congress, I belong in it, I believe in it, and I will die in it.
But once people mishandle it, I will also come in to rescue it.”
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