New political party, uMkhonto weSizwe, will have a zero-tolerance policy on corruption and its members will be disciplined for corrupt activities, former president Jacob Zuma told supporters at a party event in Verulam, KZN.
The MK Party’s job was to ‘rescue the ANC from the mud that Ramaphosa has put it in. We will take it out of the mud, come hell or high water’, Zuma said.
He said many did not understand that the MK Party was still within the ANC.
Zuma said: ‘We are still at home here in the MK and are merely fixing our house [the ANC], but someone is giving us trouble and we will toss him aside’.
He said the ANC leadership had disrespected the 2017 national conference delegates by failing to implement resolutions around land, the SA Reserve Bank.
‘They disrespected us as ANC delegates. We will explain all these things when we unpack why we will not vote for Ramaphosa’s ANC. We will also explain this to [Ramaphosa] because he is the president, and that’s if he really is the president.’
On plans the MK Party have for the election, Zuma said: ‘We will not make any promises; we are saying that we are here to get complete freedom. We are going to do everything that black people deserve, and that is absolute freedom.
‘The MK is here to help the party [of] our forebears to do the right thing; the MK is here to do that and free this country. That is what the MK always does.’
The ANC is threatening the MK party over its logo, which the ANC alleges is similar to that of its military wing uMkhonto WeSizwe. The MK Party has until Friday to respond to the ANC’s letter of demand.