Former ANC President Thabo Mbeki has lambasted the uMkhonto weSizwe Party and his successor Jacob Zuma for saying that he is still an ANC member but campaigning for the newly-formed MK party.
You cannot say Im a member of the ANC, but Im going to campaign against the ANC. You cant! Thats not an honest position. Hes campaigning against the ANC; he has defined himself. I think what the leadership of the ANC said earlier, that he has defined himself out of the ANC. That is correct. (I) think that is the position hes taken practically. Jacob Zuma has defined himself out of the ANC so hes not ANC anymore.
Speaking to the SABC News , Mbeki also commented on the DAs letter requesting the United States and other Western countries to observe elections in South Africa.
People get invited to countries and organizations get invited to monitor elections, to observe elections, not by political parties. It doesnt happen anywhere. The last elections that (was) observed in Nigeria - and many people were there, from the United States, Europe, and everywhere - they were all invited via the electoral process. None of the political parties invited those people. In this case, I think the DA is making a statement about itself. That it doesnt trust our own people. It doesnt trust our own capacity to handle our own elections. The people they trust is effectively the white world. Thats the statement by the DA itself,
Mbeki also says he will campaign for the ANC.
Im a member of the ANC, and of course, as a member of the ANC, it is part of the obligation on members of the ANC. We have to make our own contribution to the population.
Mbeki said since 2009 the number of people voting for the ANC had declined up until the 2021 local government elections. He added that the leadership of the ANC is aware of that decline.
Video: Mbeki slams MK Party and his successor Jacob Zuma
