Tensions arise within MK Party following release of election results

Internal tensions within the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party have surfaced following the release of election results on Sunday, with dissatisfied members gathering at Gandhi Square in the Johannesburg CBD to raise concerns over the party’s internal processes.

The members accuse the Ekurhuleni regional leadership of failing to follow party guidelines in compiling candidate lists.

They are now calling on the national leadership to intervene, accusing some individuals of continuing to oversee the process despite being instructed to dissolve the election task team.

Ekurhuleni MKP Former regional secretary Castro Mlaba says they were told that the original election task teams would be dissolved immediately.

“However, we have seen them busy during the election process, leading us with the list, and some of them were combining the list, favouring themselves. So we want to bring that to the attention of the national leadership so that they can attend to it because the guidelines are clear and I‘m sure the leadership will definitely attend to our concerns.”

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