Cape Town — Former uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) leader and founder, Jabulani Khumalo, has criticised Jacob Zuma’s leadership abilities and questioned whether he was fit to lead the party.
Zuma and Khumalo have not seen eye-to-eye since Khumalo’s expulsion, with Zuma alleging that Khumalo would play no role in the future of the party.
“He’s not in our party, he was chased away. He has the letter, it was written, I gave it to him, he was sitting here when I gave it to him,” Zuma said.
Speaking in an interview with Biz News TV, Khumalo delved into the details of how Zuma got involved with the MK Party, and what role he was expected to play.
Khumalo said the party did not want anyone involved with state capture to be a leader of the party.
He believed that Zuma had ulterior motives for joining MK as he brought many of his state capture cronies along with him. He called Zuma a liar and questioned his ability to lead the party after the MK Party decided to remove 18 members from the National Assembly.
“This the craziness of Jacob Zuma. He doesn’t think. That is a big problem we have in uMkhonto weSizwe. MK is not going forward because people will tell you baba [Zuma] is sleeping, baba is tired. We are not leading in KZN because Zuma was sleeping when the other parties were working towards getting the parliamentarians to work,” he said.
He said the MK party was supposed to be part of the GNU because people voted for the party to be in Parliament.
According to TimesLIVE, MK Party’s head of presidency Magasela Mzobe dismissed Khumalo’s claims and said that Zuma does the work of the organisation, and that many South Africans had seen him campaign for the party before the elections.
He said Zuma continued to give the MK direction and the leadership drew on his wisdom and guidance on how things get done.
Mzobe said that Zuma’s leadership was able to attract Floyd Shivambu, who favoured the MK party after leaving the EFF, as the MK Party promised him a top position.
“That’s why capable people like Shivambu have joined and we expect many others to join, all as a result of the guidance of Zuma. When they say he is not capable, how does he attract such capable people to his party? Zuma is in a place of building structures and solving problems,” Mzobe said.
Mzobe also dismissed Khumalo’s claim that Zuma’s daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, orchestrated the party’s removal of 15 of its MPs earlier this month.
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Compiled by Matthew Petersen
