Former President Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane says we need something new as an alternative to the ANC. Image: The South African
Duduzane Zuma snubs father’s MK party for ‘something new, fresh’
All Game Changers party leader Duduzane Zuma wants to bring solutions to service delivery issues such as load-shedding, unemployment.
Former President Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane says we need something new as an alternative to the ANC. Image: The South African
“We need something new and fresh,” says former president Jacob Zuma’sZuma’s son Duduzane when explaining why he started his party instead of joining his father’sfather’s Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party.
Timeslive, reported that the businessman-turned-politician announced plans last month to register his party, All Game Changers, a few weeks after his father publicly said he was campaigning for the MK party.
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”WE NEED SOMETHING NEW AND FRESH,” SAYS DUDUZANE
“I think it has been a long period of the same faces and the same ideology. We need something new and fresh, and we are those people,” he said in an interview with Newzroom Afrika.
“The ANC has had some massive strides and some losses. But where we are at, I do not think it is the best [party] to address challenges the country faces. They are not able to evolve at this point. We need new people; we need new visionaries. Everyone needs to put their shoulder to the wheel,” he said.
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ANC ON ALL GAME CHANGERS: LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN MK PARTY
The ANC leadership has described Duduzane’s move as a ” lack of confidence” in his father’s new political home. But the son said forming the new party was his effort to ditch old political ideologies, including those of the ANC.
Duduzane said his party’s manifesto would focus on bringing solutions to service delivery issues such as load-shedding and unemployment and ways to make young people “not dependent on social welfare.”
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NO BAD BLOOD BETWEEN FATHER AND SON
Like his father, Duduzane said he wanted to make changes to the constitution should his party take over governance. He says there’s no bad blood between him and his father, as he had given him the “heads up”.
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