Reporter Johnathan Paoli, Videographer Kgalalelo Setlhare and pictures by Eddie Mtsweni
A press conference by former President Jacob Zuma has been met with mixed feelings after he denounced the ANC and urged South Africans to vote for the newly formed party, uMkhonto weSizwe in next year’s elections.
Speaking in Orlando East on Saturday, Soweto Zuma accused the current ANC leadership of being a proxy for White Monopoly Capital and said the party can be rescued if people voted for uMkhonto weSizwe, a party named after the ANC’s military wing.
In a short statement issued to the media on Saturday, the ANC in KZN said Zuma’s announcement was an attempt to sway voters from the governing party.
“It is the duty of each party supporter to defend and protect the movement,” the party’s provincial spokesperson, Mafika Mndebele, said.
The spokesperson said that any call encouraging people not to vote for the
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