Mbuyiseni Ndlozi reveals his next move after quitting EFF

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Former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)MP and spokesperson Dr Mbuyiseni Ndlozihas revealed why he left the party.

The 39-year-old former politician announced his resignation from the EFF in an interview with the SABC on Sunday night.

“I was suspended about six weeks before the EFF conference and the suspension was unconventional in that it didn’t rely on the code of conduct of the EFF summoned by its constitution.

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi leaves politics

“They claimed that I’m part of the infiltration strategy by the MK Party and the second being the fact that I knew about Shivambu’s departure,” he said.

Ndlozi admitted that he knew about Floyd Shivambu’s move to join the MK Party but didn’t tell the EFF leader Julius Malema. The former EFF spokesperson said he left politics to make contributions outside that arena.

“I have taken a decision to step away completely from party politics. I’m leaving party politics, I think I made my contribution in that space. We don’t live in a one-party state, we are not in the camps, we are not banned…politics are a free activity in South Africa and party politics are not the monopoly of making social contributions,” Ndlozi added.

After he resigned from parliament last month, many speculated that Mbuyiseni Ndlozi might be the latest EFF member to join MK Party. In his interview, he revealed that he never considered joining the Jacob Zuma-led party.

I think after this episode, I’ve taken a decision to leave all of party politics and contribute; in the first instance to the academy, the second instance, I’m very passionate about the upliftment of the level of discourse in the country but most importantly, I think the terrain of struggle that has been neglected over the years is the civil society space,” Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said.

That civil society space I’m interested because it is where you are able to cultivate and agitate the notions of freedom where liberation is about the people. It’s time somebody did for this country what Afriforum is doing for the Afrikaners.”