The main beneficiaries of its vote collapse will be the populist parties Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party rather than the centre-right Democratic Alliance (DA)...

The problem lies in persistent delays rooted in the long-standing separation of investigation and prosecution – a structural flaw the Scorpions had overcome before President Jacob Zuma dismantled them...

Public scepticism remains high with many questioning whether another commission of inquiry will deliver results – especially in light of frustrations stemming from the Zondo Commission into state capture which exposed the ANC under former President Jacob Zuma as an ‘organised criminal enterprise' that ‘knew what was going on but did nothing about it' (AC Vol 63 Nos 1 The ANC faces a reckoning on corruption 10 Zondo hands ANC a time-bomb 14 Zondo's game changer Dispatches 22/5/22 Oppositionists demand action on Zondo and edge towards coalition & Vol 64 No 14 ANC leaders wade into new ethics row)...

This stance aligned the DA which secured 22% of the national vote with two populist opposition parties – the EFF (10%) and the MK party (15%) led by indicted former President Jacob Zuma (AC Vol 65 No 12 Choices get starker after the ANC vote crash & Vol 65 No 13 The ANC stitches together a pro-market coalition)...

The new political parties such as Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party also came under fire...

KZN ANC members argue that dissolving the PECs could empower Zuma and his MK party at a time when the ANC is desperate to regain ground ahead of the 2026 local government elections (AC Vol 65 No 24 The rise fall and rise again of Jacob Zuma)...

But a fallout between the EFF's Julius Malema and MK's Jacob Zuma has shattered the original post-election ‘progressive alliance' of the parties (AC Vol 65 No 16 Hurdles for Progressive Caucus)...

Zuma will wield immense power within MK the leading opposition party in parliament which will target Ramaphosa and try to revive the land distribution issue (AC Vol 65 No 24 The rise fall and rise again of Jacob Zuma)...

Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party is shaping the landscape as it gears up for its first anniversary on 16 December its ranks bolstered by several high-profile defectors from Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)...

THE NEW FRONT LINE UMKHONTO WESIZWE Dali Mpofu – Former African National Congress (ANC) member; first national chair of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) and Jacob Zuma's lawyer...

Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) party has wasted no time in getting its policy tsar to work laying on motorcades around the provinces with local MK leaders political rallies and a gala dinner for its newly appointed national organiser former Economic Freedom Front (EFF) deputy president Floyd Shivambu...

However the EFF which was the third-largest party in the 2019 election with 44 seats was knocked into fourth place by Zuma's MK winning only 38 seats (Dispatches 7/8/24 Chastened ANC pins the blame on Jacob Zuma)...

Jacob Zuma who is yet to hold an elective conference has not been shy about hiring and firing – including the recent axing of the party's secretary-general Arthur Zwane and treasurer-general Danisa Zulu – and rehiring MK leaders...

Former cabinet spokesperson Jacob Zuma Foundation spokesperson African Transformation Movement MP then EFF MP and now MK member...