The MK Party has recently welcomed “state capture enablers” back home with its numerous announcements of new — but mostly controversial — members.
ANC veteran Willies Mchunu and former EFF MP Busisiwe Mkhwebane were unveiled as new members of the Jacob Zuma-led party earlier this week, and will take up the reins as its KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga conveners respectively.
Mchunu, a long-time ally of Zuma and a former KwaZulu-Natal premier, resigned from the ANC recently. While his resurfacing in the MK Party did not come as a surprise, he divulged for the first time what appealed to him about his new political home.
“Those of us who stay in KZN have aspirations. Some of our aspirations have not been met, and I dare say that, having been in the leadership of my erstwhile party [the ANC], we must admit there are things we were incapable of doing for the poor,” he said.
Mkhwebane — the impeached former public protector who subsequently joined the EFF but quit the red berets a week ago to “rest” — said the MK Party felt like home. “I joined the MK Party because I felt that it’s a home that understands the persecution of black people, the challenges we are facing, and [the need to fight] the captured system. So I could relate to the constitution of MK. I am not lost — I am home,” she said.
Mchunu and Mkhwebane join former Prasa CEO Lucky Montana, former Transnet CEO Siyabonga Innocent Gama, former Transnet and Eskom CEO Brian Molefe, and former Government Communication and Information System CEO Mzwanele Manyi, all of whom were fingered for their involvement in state capture.
