Ndlozi swaps politics for radio as new host of PowerFM show

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Cape Town — Former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MP, Mbuyizeni Ndlozi, is set to join PowerFM and be the host of the PowerTalk show.

Ndlozi resigned from the EFF earlier this week and said his new focus would be to move away from politics as he made his contributions.

“I have left the EFF, I have left party politics. EFF is a political party. I have handed over my resignation as a member and it is because where I want to go and contribute, I can’t hold a single-party membership,” he said following his resignation.

Ndlozi has now decided to make the switch from politics to radio as he was offered a role as the host of Power Talk, IOL reported.

“Power 98.7 is proud to announce a major addition to our broadcasting team: Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, widely recognized as one of the most dynamic and influential voices of his generation. Dr Ndlozi will host POWER Talk from next month.”

In an interview with PowerFM, Ndlozi humbly accepted his new position as PowerTalk host.

“I am happy this morning to accept this challenge. Once I started to think about it, I got the necessary relevance. It’s the riskiest decision I’ve ever had to make and your proposal I accepted in relation to power,” he said.

Ndlozi said it was important not to marginalise the voices of people who perform certain roles within society, including cleaners, doctors, nurses and academics.

“We waste our time with current affairs-oriented pundits who don’t deepen the historicity of whatever we may confront as a society at that moment,” he added.

He hoped to help South Africans to speak across different means and values and to have a conversation that is in the interest of the betterment of humanity and South Africa.

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According to TimesLIVE, Ndlozi said there was no bad blood between him and EFF leader, Julius Malema, in the wake of his resignation. Ndlozi said he still considers Malema his brother, despite the EFF leader saying he no longer has a personal relationship with him.

“I worked closely with him and as a leader, he has gone through a lot. I think his contribution is of serious importance and I would never join any voice to write him off or to dismiss the EFF,” he said.

During his EFF tenure, he was known as the “people’s bae” and Malema’s “ice boy” but he took it well, saying it showed he knew how to serve.

“It is the stupidest idea to mock the person who prepared the room before you sat in the chair. I did that wholeheartedly,” he added.

Ndlozi never considered taking a leadership role in the EFF, despite calls for him to replace Floyd Shivambu as party deputy president, but he said he knew his role and did not consider himself to be better than Malema.

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