Simon Nare
THE surprising emergence and rise of former President Jacob Zuma’s Umkhonto WeSizwe party can best be described as the black swan of the highly contested 29 May 2024 National General Elections in South Africa.
As many of the more than 50 new parties formed to challenge one of the highly anticipated elections we have seen since 1994, are starting to disappear, the MK party continues to show gains and strengths not only in KwaZulu-Natal but also in Mpumalanga and in Gauteng.
Last night at the IEC’s Results Operation Centre in Midrand, where the partial election results were announced, the MK party was in the clear lead ahead of the ANC and the IFP in Zuma’s stronghold of KwaZulu Natal and was jostling for the third place with Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) nationally.
When we went to bed on Thursday evening, the ANC had more than 3
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