WATCH: ‘Umshini Wami’- Mbalula shades Zuma amid MK ‘purge’

ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula's comments come amid a "purge" within the MK party, allegedly orchestrated by Zuma.

ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula has taken fresh aim at former president Jacob Zuma. Picture: Nigel Sibandaover the weekend, Mbalalu urged supporters not to just follow any person who decides to start a party, before taking a direct swipe at Zuma. “People go around establishing political parties. I don’t know why Jacob Zuma is starting a political party in his old age.“We gave him a chance. We told him to rule and he failed. Instead he took the country and gave it to the Guptas.Zuma must leave!Mbalula claimed the party had been “patient” with its former leader, but it was time for him to go.“It has been a long time since Zuma served his country. Each person should rule, serve his term and then leave.

Mbalula’s comments come amid a “purge” within the MK party, alleged by some to be orchestrated by Zuma. After weeks of speculation, the party confirmed that co-founder Jabulani Khumalo Khumalo and four others had been given the boot for “attempting to destabilise theJust days later reports surfaced that the party had allegedly used public information and forged signatures to be eligible to contestthere had been “very serious elements of infiltration in the organisation that are coming from all sorts of forces, including other parties”.

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