Officials From The Mk Party Respond To The Decision That Takes Zuma Out Of The Polls On May 29.

Defeated but not outmatched. Jacob Zuma of South Africa is no longer eligible to run in the general election on May 29.

Under the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party banner, the former president began to compete in the polls. On Monday, May 20, his supporters and party officials were gathered outside the constitutional court.

We cannot contest this ruling because the highest court in the nation makes it. However, Jacob Zuma will dictate to us as an executive as to what we should do moving forward,” MK Party Secretary General Sihle Ngubane stated.

I believe a ruling essentially states that President Zuma will not address Parliament. But MK made a straightforward choice. It states that a two-thirds majority is required to amend the constitution. President Zuma now addresses Parliament after the constitution has been amended. Thus, we have to go and work’, Deputy Secretary General Aurthur Zwane remarked to the applauding assembly.The criminal conviction from 2021 is preventing Jacob Zuma from being eligible.

The 82-year-old declared last year that he would not support the ANC, which is in power, in this election cycle.

In a different case, the MK party is accused of forging signatures on documents it submitted to the SA Electoral Commission.