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PRETORIA – ANC stalwart Mavuso Msimang has labeled uMkhonto weSizwe veterans as “clowns” and said they continue to cause chaos in the country.
Last week, the group was enraged by closing foreign-owned stores and demanding that the owners leave the country.
Msimang, who received an honorary doctorate from the University of South Africa, did not hold back in her criticism.
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“I see some strange documents come up that there is a new order being pushed by some people from uMkhonto weSizwe,” he said.
“They do not belong to our uMkhonto weSizwe. They are not us. We were told a long time ago to cease our activities and in 1991, uMkhonto weSizwe as a vehicle of liberation came into existence when there was an agreement to form the SANDF.
“To allow these clowns and comrade president we have to ask that sometimes these idiots are not given the audience to waste time when there is so much.”
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The sentiment was shared by the former president and current chancellor of Unisa, Thabo Mbeki.
“So if we want to hear something about what MK is, what MK stands for, this is where we should come. Like him, I see people marching down our streets here wearing uniforms calling themselves MK, that’s not the MK that he knows, and that’s not the MK I know
“But I’m talking about an MK that like the NUM was very central in this matter of shaping futures in the service of humanity,” Mbeki said.
Msimang said there is no alternative to replace the ruling party.
“Even our terribly weakened ANC, I don’t see anybody to replace it. I don’t know who could rule this country, certainly not in the short term. So it is absolutely important for the sake of South Africa that we do something,” he said.
Msimang said the ANC is plagued with serious challenges that it must face.
