It is acknowledged that Jacob Zuma’s new MK Party has disrupted politics in its short, topsy-turvy lifespan, but the jury is out on whether it is all hype, no substance. However, if two by-elections are a marker – albeit in one KZN region – the party’s possible impact on the upcoming elections.
The uMkhonto Wesizwe party continued from where it left off in its recent debut by-election by taking votes off the IFP, and now the ANC, to give both established parties a fright in a marginal IFP seat in uPhongolo, KwaZulu-Natal. The IFP took a seat off the ANC in Newcastle, while the Patriot.