The MK party fields a combination of political newcomers and long-time Zuma members.Photo: Tebogo Lessi/Getty Images
Former President Jacob Zuma is the number one candidate for the breakaway Umkhonto we Sizwe Party (MKP) from the National Assembly in the May 29 national and local elections.
Mr Zuma announced his support for the new party in December last year, and although he has not left or been expelled from the ANC, he has emerged as the face of the party's campaign in the run-up to the upcoming polls.
The MKP's national list is made up of long-time Zuma associates, a number of political newcomers, and leaders of a number of small political parties, churches and other groups that supported the former president.
Jabulani Khumalo, who registered the party, came second on the list of MKs submitted to the South African Electoral Commission (IEC) on Friday, followed by All African Alliance Movement (AAAM) president Sophonia Tshekedi. The church-based political party has declared that Zuma: He is considered a likely presidential candidate in January.
The list, which was leaked to the media early on Saturday, also includes the names of Zuma's longtime associates, including entrepreneur Roy Moodley and South Africa's shortest-serving finance minister, Des van Rooyen. .
Mr Van Rooyen and Mr Moodley both carried out notable activities towards state capture at the Zondo Commission, but Mr Zuma left without responding to cross-examination and was ultimately sentenced to 15 months in prison for contempt. was sentenced to
Mr Zuma's daughter Duduzil is number 18 on the MKP's national list, while Visbin Reddy, African Democratic Change (Adec) eThekwini councilor and until recently an ANC ally, is number 9 on the MKP list. It's in.
Mr Reddy, a former ANC, Democratic Alliance and Minority Front councilor, last week threatened violent riots if the MKP was not allowed to register with the IEC.
However, Reddy later apologized and claimed it had been taken out of context after President Cyril Ramaphosa threatened to arrest him and others who had made similar comments.
David Skosana, husband of former public protector and current Economic Freedom Fighters MP Busisiwe Mkhwebane, is 15th on the MKP list, one place below former EFF MP Sipho Mbatha. be.
Khoisan activist Glenn Taibosch is number 41 on the MKP list, followed by former African Christian Democratic Party (MP) and Western Cape preacher Wesley Douglas.
