Leaving EFF and joining MK is to defend the revolution: Shivambu

Floyd Shivambu says he did not betray anyone but chose to defend the revolution.

This after he resigned as EFF deputy president last week to join the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party.

EFF President Julius Malema came out guns blazing at members who, in his view, silently betrayed the party for what he described as “greener pastures.”

Shivambu is now the national organiser of the MK Party.

He says he voluntarily joined MK for the right reasons and made a plea during his resignation as an EFF member to avoid mischaracterization of a revolutionary decision and act.

“Because revolution is the content of what we’re standing for. It’s not, just know if it’s me, you’re betraying me. You know some people were saying ‘you’re betraying me’. Where does that enter? And you don’t even once suggest that I’m betraying the revolution. I will never betray the revolution. And President Zuma when he was inducting all of us yesterday, he said that we might be friends or think we’re friends, but friendship won’t apply here.”

Meanwhile, MK Secretary-General Sifiso Maseko has made assurances that the leadership of the party announced today in Sandton is permanent, bringing stability to the fledgling party.

The party says it is assembling its structures but will not be holding an elective conference any time soon as it is wary of the divisions such conferences cause.

The party is currently facing a court challenge by 10 of its former MPs for removing them from their positions in parliament. This follows the removal of Arthur Zwane as secretary-general in recent weeks.