The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party’s national high command member Dali Mpofu says they have no business referring to other political organisations as enemies.
This comes as Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema declared the MK Party as their number one enemy as several prominent members, including Mpofu, who served as the party’s first national chairperson, have ditched the Red Berets and joined MKP.
MK PARTY MEMBERS NOT ALLOWED TO RESPOND TO PROVOCATION
On Monday, 25 November, the EFF held a briefing and a site walk at the Nasrec expo centre in Johannesburg, where the party will also host its elective conference from 12 – 15 December.
Despite the two parties being part of the progressive caucus in Parliament, Malema said the Jacob Zuma-led party is the EFF’s number one enemy.
He further said there was no bad blood between him and Zuma. However, earlier this month, in the EFF’s podcast, he said Zuma is inviting him for a fight, and he is not scared of him.
During a media briefing on Wednesday, 27 November, Mpofu said that, as per the MK Party’s constitution, members are not allowed to respond to provocation and, in particular, not to attack other progressive forces.
“We will never regard any organisation let alone a progressive one as our enemy. The word enemy is a very strong one, it’s used only when you intend to do certain things in politics. There’s a difference between opponents, rivals, and enemies. So, we do not take the position of calling any black person our enemy because they are our fellow oppressed people,” Mpofu said.
WILL JACOB ZUMA’S NKANDLA HOMESTEAD BE ATTACHED?
Meanwhile, addressing EFF supporters outside the Constitutional Court in Johannesburg on Tuesday, 26 November, Malema said they are not going to play nice with people who play rough with them.
“All the cases we won against Jacob Zuma, he never paid the legal fees. Zuma is owing us legal fees, we’ve got an order that he must pay us our money because we defeated him in court. Now, he has not complied with the order to pay our money.
“We have just instructed our lawyers to go and attach Nkandla so that the man [Zuma] pays back our money. We want our money that Zuma owes us from here at the Constitutional Court, the High Court in Pretoria and everywhere else where we have been winning against Zuma they said he must pay us legal fees but he never did,” Malema said.
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