Former President and MK Party leader Jacob Zuma has made a call for all black political parties to come together under one organisation.
This, he said, will make it possible for black people to get a two-thirds majority and take back their country, suggesting that the MK party be used as this vehicle.
Zuma made this call at his party’s one-year anniversary celebrations at the Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.
Zuma told thousands of MK Party supporters that white people are more united than black people and are able to easily pursue one mission.
Black people, he said, ought to be able to unite under a single organisation and fight to lift black people out of poverty.
He did not outright say it, but Zuma suggested that the MK party should be the party under which everyone unites.
“In the coming elections, as black people, let’s forget our different political parties and vote for a single party as blacks to get back our land,” said Zuma.
Zuma has been saying that he established the MK party to rescue the ANC, which has since expelled him.
It emerged recently that Zuma has also tried to collapse the EFF into the MK party.
This attempt was made clear in a report said to have surprisingly been compiled by former EFF national chair Mpofu while he was still in the EFF. Mpofu has since left the EFF and joined the MK party.
The EFF at the time rejected this suggestion.
Since then, several high profile EFF members have joined the MK party including the party’s former deputy president Floyd Shivambu who now serves as MK Party’s secretary-general.
Other high profile leaders who have since left the EFF for the MK Party include former MPs Dali Mpofu, Busisiwe Mkhwebane and Mzwanele Manyi.
These departures have sent the EFF into a tailspin, with some of the EFF leadership viewing this move as an attempt to destroy the party.
They believe that Zuma has infiltrated the party and is on a mission to further destroy it.
Zuma’s call for blacks to vote for a single party seems to be in line with the purging of leaders from various political parties.
He said the proliferation of black parties was making it difficult for black people to get a two-thirds majority to make necessary changes to the constitution, which would go a long way in alleviating poverty.
This arrangement would not be permanent but a temporary strategy with the sole purpose of taking power back, he said.
Once this mission is achieved as early as the next elections, everyone would be able to then go back and vote for their different parties in the elections that would follow.
“We need to vote and get a two-thirds majority, get most of the votes and take back our country. We have not been able to achieve this; why is that? We are all failing to achieve it,” said Zuma.
“We should invite other parties and say in this coming election, let us forget about all these other things and our different political parties so that all of us black people vote to take back our country so that we can end hunger, poverty, being undermined and seen as people.”
“After that election, people can then go back to their original parties because by then we would be in charge of the country. Just this once, will we not be able to achieve that?”
He said the milestone achieved by the MK party was a testament that they meant business.
“I am saying, on this anniversary of uMkhonto we Sizwe today that even those who could not see it must see it now; we are not playing. This is the last phase of taking back the country,” said Zuma.
He said people need to stop saying that the elections were far as they were only four years from now.
It was therefore prudent, he said, that these discussions be held as soon as possible.
Not voting together as black people, he said, was a missed opportunity which ought to be corrected to lift blacks from abject poverty.
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