Cape Town – uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party national organiser Floyd Shivambu says the MK Parliamentary caucus possesses superior skills compared to any other political party in South Africa.
He said this during an interview with Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh.
After leaving the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) in August to join Jacob Zuma’s MK party, Shivambu highlighted the party’s expertise and capacity, claiming it could efficiently govern the country if given the opportunity.
“I think that uMkhonto weSizwe party is the most important political party in South Africa’s politics now, and it needed to take the direction and the shape that it’s taking now upon realizing that there’s been so many external attempts to destabilize it,” he said.
Shivambu added: “The manner in which the parliamentary caucus of uMkhonto weSizwe and the organisation, you will see that there is extremely brilliant comrades in uMkhonto weSizwe at all levels. In terms of Parliamentary caucus, uMkhonto weSizwe has got the best caucus as compared to all other caucuses.”
FLOYD SHIVAMBU
MK Party Caucus has the most qualitative leadership in that Parliament.
No Party has quality of leadership than MKP. Not ANC, DA nor EFF.
If you could give MKP government tomorrow & say run it, they will be no issues. Those leadsrs will run it efficiently.… pic.twitter.com/sQaYYKRPDm
— Constitution First 🇿🇦 (@Constitution_94) October 26, 2024
“So the skill set that you find in uMkhonto weSizwe is qualitatively much superior than what you find in the ANC, you wound find in the EFF and you would find in the DA. Within the DA is a team of illiterates.”
Shivambu cited his decision to join MK as a desire to support progressive forces in South Africa and acknowledged that some EFF members were aware of his planned departure but preferred not to inform EFF leader Julius Malema.
“Some obviously came to beg me and said ‘please don’t tell the president [Malema]’. The president did not know and I did not see the need to talk to him about it.
WATCH: Floyd Shivambu reveals that some EFF leaders knew that he was leaving for the MK Party. Only Julius Malema, the leader of the EFF was kept in the dark about the move. pic.twitter.com/nlUIPN5Kku
— Sihle Mavuso (@ZANewsFlash) October 26, 2024
“I canvassed the perspective with everyone else and when I literally communicated the decision, they said ‘ please don’t tell him that we knew throughout that you were going to take this progressive decision so he doesn’t look at us with doubt,” he said.
He also mentioned that he was previously misled into viewing Zuma negatively but now sees the former president and the MK party as a positive force.
Shivambu said that the MK party is fully capable of governing the country.
“if you were to say to the MK party take government tomorrow, they will run government efficiently and without confusion. They’re not going to learn as to how government must run efficiently, responsibly and in a manner that will impact on the lives of people most positively.”
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