If MK governed SA, 'there would have been no poverty right now', Zuma tells supporters

VOSLOORUS - Former President Jacob Zuma said that if his party, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK), was governing the country, poverty would already be eradicated. 

Zuma addressed hundreds of MK supporters at the Vosloorus Stadium, where the party held a rally on Saturday.

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The rally is part of a series of celebrations ahead of the party’s one-year anniversary on 15 December.

For much of his speech on Saturday, Zuma spoke about reclaiming the country from white people. 

Zuma said the MK Party was formed to liberate black South Africans from suffering and poverty. 

"We wanted to take back the country and govern it properly. In fact, we should have been the government because there would have been no poverty right now."

After his one-hour speech, Zuma treated the crowd to his trademark song.

Meanwhile, spokesperson for the Jacob Zuma Foundation, Mzwanele Manyi, said that the former state president had not severed all ties with the ANC.

Earlier in November, the ANC's national disciplinary committee rejected Zuma's appeal against his expulsion from the party. 

Zuma was booted from the ANC for bringing the organisation into disrepute by forming and campaigning for another political party. 

Speaking on the sidelines of the MK Party's rally in Cosloorus on Saturday, Manyi had this to say:

"President Zuma is consulting his comrades within the ANC, he's consulting his branch, region, province as a member of the ANC. At some point, he will get direction whether he wants to take the matter to the conference of the ANC and perhaps he has to do that because when he goes to court, because that’s another option, he has to demonstrate he has gone through all internal processes within the organisation, so without him making his case at the conference of the ANC, it might be argued that he didn't exhaust all the (internal) processes."