By Johnathan Paoli
Former uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) secretary-general Floyd Shivambu has announced plans to convene a national consultative conference to determine whether a new political party should be formed in South Africa.
Addressing the media on Thursday, Shivambu said process would involve a wide range of stakeholders, from traditional and religious leaders to community organisers and prominent South Africans, including figures like businessman Patrice Motsepe.
“We will consult the people of this country to ask a fundamental question: Is there a need for a new political party? And if so, what should it stand for, and how should it be structured? We will be going to all the people of all the regions of South Africa,” Shivambu said.
This comes in the wake of his dismissal earlier this month as secretary-general, a role he said he carried with “the utmost respect”, helping build the party’s structures and draft its
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