Zingisa Mkhuma
In the most dramatic – and unexpected – result to come out of the national and provincial elections thus far, Jacob Zuma’s Umkhonto weSizwe Party has emerged as the largest party in KwaZulu-Natal.
The party also appears poised to replace the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) as the third largest party in parliament – another massive win for a party that was registered less than a year ago.
By Friday morning, with 36% of the count in South Africa’s second most populous province, the newest breakaway party from the ANC had taken just over 45.5% of the vote in KwaZulu-Natal.
The ANC had taken 19.6% of the provincial vote – a staggering drop of more than 30% on its 2019 result – while the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) had registered 15.6% from the main rural areas counted thus far.
The Democratic Alliance (DA), which had hoped to take control
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