{"id":30904,"date":"2025-06-04T16:07:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/?p=30904"},"modified":"2025-06-04T18:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T16:24:45","slug":"floyd-shivambus-future-in-the-mk-party-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yfm.co.za\/devworld\/2025\/06\/04\/floyd-shivambus-future-in-the-mk-party-under-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"Floyd Shivambu\u2019s future in the MK Party under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The MK Party\u2019s (MKP) decision to demote Floyd Shivambu has come under intense scrutiny, with many saying his political fate in the party may be sealed any moment.<\/div>\n
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Yesterday, the organisation announced that Shivambu would no longer serve as secretary-general<\/a> and has been redeployed to the National Assembly as an ordinary Member of Parliament (MP).<\/div>\n
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The move is over his recent visit to the church of fugitive pastor Shepherd Bushiri in Malawi, which is said to have been in violation of the party\u2019s constitution.<\/div>\n
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This despite Shivambu recently insinuating that party leader, Jacob Zuma, knew about the trip during an interview with independent television news channel, Newzroom Afrika.<\/div>\n
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Politician and activist, Anele Mda, has dismissed the reason for the former EFF deputy president’s demotion as petty, suggesting that it masks deeper internal divisions.<\/div>\n
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“The Malawi issue became an excuse for Zuma and his cabal and Duduzile’s faction to remove Floyd. They had nothing, because politically they could not challenge Floyd, he was shaping the discourse of MK, was building MK, putting political character.”<\/div>\n
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Mda is adamant that the MK Party had no direction before Shivambu’s arrival.<\/div>\n
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The former deputy president of the EFF joined the MK Party in August last year, in a move that shocked many and left his former red berets comrades shuttered.<\/div>\n
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Mda also took a jab at Zuma accusing him of failing as a leader, while mocking the party’s “Gwaza Mkhonto” slogan.<\/div>\n
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“The tools of war in this day and age are intelligence.”<\/div>\n
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