Nhlanhla Mabaso17 December 2024 | 7:35

Shivambu praises Zuma for taking 'bold decision' to start MK

Floyd Shivambu was speaking at the MK Party's gala dinner in Durban on Monday night.

Shivambu praises Zuma for taking 'bold decision' to start MK

UMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party leader, Jacob Zuma, at the party's first anniversary celebration in Durban on 15 December 2024. Picture: Nhlanhla Mabaso/EWN

DURBAN - UMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party secretary-general, Floyd Shivhambu, has praised former President Jacob Zuma's formation of the party. 

Shivambu was speaking at the MK Party's gala dinner in Durban on Monday night. 

The gala, which the party held to attract investment opportunities, comes after it celebrated its first-year anniversary at the Moses Mabhida Stadium on Sunday.

Shivhambu asked attendees to applaud Zuma for his decision to form a political organisation.

"I want us on this day, the 16 of December 2024 to use this opportunity to appreciate and give a round of applause to President Zuma for having founded uMkhonto weSizwe Party." 

Shivhambu said that this was a bold decision which also inspired his move from the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).

"None of us could believe that President Zuma could take a bold decision to start an organisation and forego, somehow, an organisation which he had served before for more than 60 years. That was one of the boldest actions, that is why some of us didn't even have an iota of fear to leave just a 10-year-old organisation."