Ndlozi may be headed to MK Party - analyst
A political analyst from the University of Johannesburg, Professor Theo Venter, believes the resignation of Mbuyiseni Ndlozi as an EFF Member of Parliament paves the way for him to join the MK Party.
Ndlozi resigned as an MP on Thursday, together with another EFF member in the Eastern Cape legislature, Yazini Tetyana.
Ndlozi was excluded from participating in the recent EFF national assembly last month, the highest decision-making conference of the party.
However, he remains an EFF member for now.
Tetyana was part of the Eastern Cape provincial legislature and Parliament, while Ndlozi has been in the National Assembly since 2014.
"The expectation is that Ndlozi would probably join the MK Party, but for a very qualified person with a lot of political experience, I would not be surprised if positions in the corporate world would also follow Dr Ndlozi,” Venter said.
"But I think the most obvious choice would be to join his friend Floyd Shivambu at the MK Party, strengthening the strategic leadership choices of MK at the moment and leaving the EFF poorer without Ndlozi.
"Ndlozi was a very strong intellectual force and strategic force in the EFF, but I think the differences between him and (EFF leader) Julius Malema just became too much, and the tensions just too devastating for him to stay on.”
Meanwhile, a political analyst from Tshwane University of Technology, Levy Ndou, believes the exclusion of Mbuyiseni Ndlozi from the EFF leadership structure led to his sudden resignation.
"It's an open secret that the relationship between Dr Ndlozi and the EFF had reached an unacceptable level; he did not attend the most important gathering of the party.
"He's no longer in the leadership of the party. That could have necessitated him to resign.”
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