The MK Party announced that it is slapping Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla with a disciplinary process after her public rant at secretary-general Floyd Shivambu. She has been ordered to apologise to him and the party for her conduct.

Duduzile blazed the X streets with fiery tweets directed at Shivambu, who she called a”mafikizolo”, a term which means a newcomer. This was about the fact that Shivambu joined the MK Party after he left the Economic Freedom Fighters, where he was the party’s deputy president.

Factionalism?

Zuma-Sambudla’s rant fueled allegations of a faction brewing in the MK Party. She initially tweeted on her @DZumaSambudla X account that she aligned herself with the faction of the “real co-founders of the MK Party”, whom she called the commanders of 16 December 2023. She was referring to the date when party President Jacob Zuma presented the MK Party at Uncle Tom’s Hall in Orlando on 16 December 2023.