Who is who in MK Party? Meet top eight leaders of Zuma-led movement
The MK Party, a breakaway of the ANC, announced a core group of leaders set to direct the party as it attempts to dislodge its forebear.
It seems uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has finally settled on a group of core leaders who will guide South Africa’s third-largest party as it seeks to build grassroots structures in the run-up to the 2026 local government elections.
On Thursday, MK Party held a press conference in Sandton, Johannesburg, where they paraded their leaders and gave South Africans some insight into the party’s machinery.
Since the party was launched in December 2023, it has been wracked by constant personnel changes, internally and in Parliament.
Now, the party has a top-eight leadership group, supported by what it calls a national high command, which has 45 additional members.
Shivambu is also a former member of the ANC Youth League, where he was expelled in 2013.
“Mr Shivambu has made it his full-time job to undermine the organisation and its leadership. We have a warning to many others who might have ideas to follow the same anarchic line that we are not going to sit in our laurels and become spectators when they are blatantly undermining our organisation,” Youth League convenor Mzwandile Masina said at the time.
Menzi Magubane
Magubane is in charge of the party’s purse as treasurer-general, having replaced Danisa Zulu on 1 July 2024.
Do you think this leadership is able to stabilise MK Party?
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