Makhubele becomes latest high-profile MKP recruit

Makhubele becomes latest high-profile MKP recruit

Former Johannesburg council speaker Colleen Makhubele announced her resignation as leader of the South African Rainbow Alliance (SARA) on Thursday. 

Former Speaker Colleen Makhubele - SARA
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She has left SARA to join former president Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe Party. 

Makhubele confirmed her resignation to Jacaranda FM news on Thursday. 

"I have resigned from SARA. I have joined MK Party,” said Makhubele. 

"What SARA stands for and what MK stands for, they are quite similar and the MK Party stands a bigger chance to achieve that ambition. SARA was formed on the basis of an alliance, bringing together minority parties and Black parties to address the plight of what is happening in society.

"Not being able to achieve that at the polls and MK party having that ambition, I think it is imperative that we support that vision. We can achieve the vision that we had when establishing SARA much more swifter within the platform of the MK Party.”

SARA was founded in November 2023 after Makhubele was fired from the Congress of the People (Cope), following a fallout with party leader Musiuoa Lekota.

The party, which is a coalition of smaller parties, only managed to get 0.04% of the vote in the May 2024 general election.

MK party garnered 14.36% of votes and is now the official opposition to the government of national unity. 

"The time to have many small parties along tribal or racial lines is over,” Makhubele said.

“Right now, we have one battle that we need to fight and that is how we change the trajectory of the Black child, how do we improve our communities, how do we fight poverty, unemployment and inequality? We cannot do that scattered. We have to do that consolidated with one voice.”

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