New party aims to challenge big 3
FORMER ANC MP Makhosi Khoza has gathered disgruntled former members of the ANC, DA and EFF in her bid to form a new party.
Her return to the political scene with a founding congress of a new political party is set for the first two days of December.
The new party’s official launch is scheduled for next year, Khoza revealed yesterday. Its aim is to challenge the big three parties in the 2019 national elections.
Khoza said the party had “a lot of comrades who are coming from the ANC” while others would join the party from the DA and the EFF. The United Front of Civics and the Forum 4 Service Delivery were already on board.
She also said there were members of the National Freedom Party (NFP) who would be joining the new venture.
Khoza said the new party was not an ANC breakaway party, but a merger between several political parties.
“You’re going to see prominent leaders of the EFF who were part of the founding of the EFF, leaders who were office-bearers, who are going to be part of this,” Khoza said.
She said these formations were merging because they had seen South Africa fragmenting and being divided, while their aim was to unite the country.
“We are going to be the leader of society and we are not necessarily hostile to the ANC.
‘‘The ANC has fulfilled its mission and it must give the younger generation the opportunity to run the country,” Khoza said.
She said it was time for the ANC to hand over the reins to people who have “a high moral stamina and who are ethical” and who can take South Africa to the next level.
On what the new party would do differently, Khoza said: “We have a lot of new blood. The ANC has developed a tendency of keeping all the people from 1994 as ministers who are not able to shift.”
“In our organisation, it’s not going to be taboo to say ‘Viva OR Tambo’ and we’re taking Madiba on board with us. Those are going to be our leaders. We are going to be celebrating them.”
Khoza said they would avoid the pitfalls of corruption that was rife in the ANC.