South Africa: Ndlozi's EFF Resignation - Joining Another Party Could Bolster Mercenary Trend in SA Politics

10 February 2025
Daily Maverick (Johannesburg)
By Stephen Grootes

The resignation of Mbuyiseni Ndlozi from the EFF shows what appears to be the inexorable decline of the party. It may again confirm that EFF leader Julius Malema is unable to build sustainable structures. If Ndlozi goes to another party, it would show how transactional our politics has become.

On Monday, the SABC broadcast a television interview in which Mbuyiseni Ndlozi finally confirmed he had formally resigned from the EFF.

This was after a long period of speculation following his absence from the party's conference in December 2024. Ndlozi has now also confirmed that this was because he had been suspended on suspicion that he was preparing to leave the EFF and move to the uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party.

He has now denied plans that he may want to follow other EFF members such as Floyd Shivambu and move to former president Jacob Zuma's outfit.

It is a strange end to the political journey of a man once the third-most prominent party leader who appeared to be on the verge of being asked to help the ANC stay in power.

When the EFF was first formed, Malema, Shivambu and Ndlozi appeared to be its nucleus.

Malema and Shivambu were well known to the public through their time in the ANC Youth League and were both part of a leadership expelled from the ANC.

While Ndlozi had been a member of the youth league, he was...

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