A look at ex-SA president Jacob Zuma's bid to unseat ANC he once led
Former President Jacob Zuma addresses followers during a church service on the Canaan Holy Mountain in Ndwedwe near Durban, South Africa on January 13, 2024. PHOTO | AFP
Former South African president Jacob Zuma’s political comeback builds on support from marginalised and angry constituencies within or close to the governing African National Congress (ANC). His vengeful but “loyal” rebellion against the ANC resonates with these political constituencies.
In mid-December 2023, Zuma announced that he would be supporting the newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party), rather than the ANC, in the upcoming national election. But he would not resign from the ANC. Umkhonto we Sizwe is the name of the ANC’s former guerrilla army.
