Three days before his intended large support wave, former South African president Jacob Zuma, according to state broadcaster SABC, is facing an attempt to remove him from management roles in his new group.
Zuma, one of South Africa’s most contentious figures, was forced to step down as president from 2009 until 2018.
Zuma, who had previously endorsed his party’s candidate in the May 29 election, publicly opposed to President Cyril Ramaphosa. He announced in December that he would support the ruling African National Congress ( ANC ) in the election.
In a situation where the ANC is looking for coalition partners, smaller events like MK could possibly get influence after the election as polls suggest the ANC may reduce its lot for the first time since it came to power in 1994.
Help for MK has hovered between 8 per cent and 13 per cent since Zuma’s support, according to surveys. Despite still being an ANC part, Zumba has become the party’s face in the media.
Khumalo has responded to Zuma’s accusations that he was not the legitimate leader of MK and that his face should never appear on vote papers after he split with MK leader Jabulani Khumalo and was fired from the group.
Khumalo was expelled, according to a MK spokesman, and Zuma was the group’s leader. Zuma has been MK’s listed chief since April 10 and the electoral commission has stated that it does not want to get involved in domestic party disputes.
A administrative reading against Zuma was scheduled for this week, but the ANC postponed it because of security concerns ahead of the election, which the ANC perceived as having the potential to cause.
In spite of his imprisonment for refusing to take part in a fraud investigation, Zuma continues to dominate South African politics, particularly in his native province of KwaZulu Natal, where rallies erupted in 2021.
The original trained wing of the ANC in the apartheid era is the MK.
