Cape Town – A new political party, Rise Mzansi, was launched in Johannesburg on Wednesday, as the country gears up for the 2024 elections.
The leader of the party, Songezo Zibi, told several community activists who attended the launch at Constitutional Hill that Rise Mzansi would offer South Africans an alternative to solving many of the country’s social ills, News24 reported.
He said that the country needed a broad social and political movement that did not limit South Africans to one elected political party, resulting in millions losing hope due to corruption.
Zibi, who is a former editor and political commentator, said his party’s values were justice, freedom, equality, solidarity, and integrity.
Songezo Zibi, Rise Mzansi leader, says lack of solutions around issues facing the country have left many people depressed.
“It is not the load shedding that demoralises us, it is the sense that we have lost the ability to deal with it,” he said. TCG pic.twitter.com/CHw68oIOJF
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) April 19, 2023
According to EWN, Zibi said that the lack of solutions around issues facing the country had left many people depressed.
“It is not the load shedding that demoralises us, it is the sense that we have lost the ability to deal wit it,” he said.
The launch of Rise Mzansi came just a few days after another party, Arise South Africa, was officially launched at the Hilton Hotel in Sandton.
Party leader Mpho Dagada said “Arise SA works to enact significant change in order to rebuild South Africa, restoring its people, infrastructure, moral standards, and institutions”, according to Bloemfontein Courant.
Dagada told local media sources, a significant number of young people, and delegates at the launch on Saturday 15 April 2023 that his party “is a movement born out of the nation’s urgent need to rescue itself from the forces that are holding it back”.
Last month, former Action SA’s Gauteng leader, Bongani Baloyi also announced his new party, Xiluva.
Meanwhile, the Electoral Amendment Bill has been signed into law.
It will allow independent candidates to run in national elections without having to be affiliated to a political party.
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
