LISTEN: Xiluva founder Bongani Baloyi joins MK
Baloyi's Xiluva party contested its first election this year, but only received 2500 votes on the national ballot and just over 1000 on the regional vote.
Xiluva party leader Bongani Baloyi in studio for Politricking with Tshidi Madia. Picture: Jacques Nelles/Eyewitness News
Clement Manyathela is joined by the leader and founder of the Xiluva party, Bongani Baloyi who announced this week he is joining the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party.
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The leader and founder of the Xiluva party, Bongani Baloyi, has announced that he will deregister the political organisation after joining Jacob Zuma's uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP).
Baloyi established Xiluva in March last year, following his departure from ActionSA and the Democratic Alliance (DA).
He announced during a media briefing in Soweto on Thursday that he had decided to join former President Jacob Zuma's political organisation.
"One of the reasons for establishing Xiluva was the fact that there was an absence of a political party that was speaking about Ubuntu, the African philisophy and political philosophy and ideology."
- Bongani Baloyi
"Now, after the elections, when people have expressed their view, it's important for us to consider consolidating, moreso for when we believe we are aligned to the vision... my politics remain clear."
- Bongani Baloyi
The DA to MKP is quite the leap, though? Everyone is on a journey, contends Baloyi.
"I joined the DA as a very young man... you grow as a person. No one starts their journey to remain the same."
- Bongani Baloyi
Baloyi said that leaders and members of the Xiluva political organisation would follow him to the MK Party, adding that the decision to do so was a 'collective one'.
"We did our due diligence when considering MK as a suitor."
- Bongani Baloyi
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