'ANC shares power with apartheid representatives' – Shivambu

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MK Party Secretary-General Floyd Shivambu has referred to the Government of National Unity (GNU) led by ANC as a “coalition representing colonialism, racism, and apartheid”.

Speaking in Soweto, celebrating party leader Jacob Zuma’s birthday, the former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) deputy president said the MK Party had no intentions of helping the African National Congress (ANC). Tensions between the ANC and GNU partner DA have reached a boiling point over the issue of increased Value-Added Tax (VAT).

Shivambu says MK have no interest in joining GNU, or helping ANC

“We responded that we do not want to enter the domestic affairs of the so-called government of national unity (GNU). If they have a budget impasse, that is their own issue. They have constituted a government with representatives of a colonial system of racism and apartheid, so they must sit and handle their own issues,” he said.

Shivambu said that the ANC were trying to use MK as a spare wheel to resolve the National Budget impasse.

“They cannot militarise us as some spare wheel to scare the DA. They cannot go to the MK party to get their immediate wish, and then we must rush [to their aid], as if we are desperate for power.

“We know that, as the MK party, we represent the majority of the people of South Africa. We’re not desperate to enter power through the ANC coalition or arrangement, Shivambu added.

“We can take power single-handedly as an organisation. We have the necessary capacity to take power by ourselves.”

Shivambu maintained that as long as the ANC-led GNU includes the DA, they will not allocate any budget to MK representatives.