Advocate Dali Mpofu has revealed that he was part and parcel of the formation of the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party together with leader Jacob Zuma. He said the plan was in the pipeline for over a year.
“Absolutely, for a few months as I say there was a time where it was just me and former President Zuma who knew about this,” Mpofu confessed in an exclusive interview with the SABC that he played the central role in getting MKP where it is.
Zuma officially launched MKP in December 2023 in Soweto, Johannesburg. The party was registered with the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) in September.
The aim was to contest the recent May 29 national and provincial elections.
Mpofu resigned from his position in the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) as chairperson. The news broke on Thursday.
He will be joining MKP, the party he described as the true liberator of the nation.
Mpofu believed that MKP will turn around the dire situation that the nation is facing.
One of his reasons for joining was that MKP represented a broader vision for decolonisation.
In the interview, Mpofu confirmed that the formation of MKP was planned for 2022 after the ANC conference.
“Former President Zuma and I were the only people who knew about this project of MK Party formation.
“We had discussed after the 2022 conference of the ANC, very in-depth as to what needs to be done. We had various options.
“This discussion took about 12 months, so by the time you attended the launch in December of MK, this had been a project that was in the pipeline in the underground as he revealed,” Mpofu said.
He claimed that leaders of political parties including EFF, ARETA, PAC, UDM, ATM, ACP, and Azapo were engaged in the vision that Zuma was selling.
Mpofu mentioned that he also reported every detail of the process to EFF leadership. This is because he did not want to play double games with his political involvement.
As he bowed out, Mpofu said there was no bad blood between him and the EFF, particularly leader Julius Malema.
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