MK Party dons black to protest dark cloud of GNU ahead of Ramaphosa’s address

The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party says they are expecting to be lied to yet again by President Cyril Ramaphosa.

MK Party MPs have ditched their traditional camouflage wear and are instead all wearing black, which they say symbolises the dark cloud that befell South Africa when the Government of National Unity was formed.

Some of them are holding placards addressing the ongoing water crisis across the country, the lack of economic transformation, and corruption.

MK Party MP Mzwanele Manyi says these are persistent challenges which President Cyril Ramaphosa has failed to address in his nine previous State of the Nation Address (SONA) speeches.

"Our issues here are water, and the reason we have a problem is not because of a shortage of water; the dams are full. We’ve got corruption and aging infrastructure. So, what this is about is a government that’s failing to deliver," Manyi said.

For two years running now, the MK Party has broken the tradition of the official opposition by not holding a pre-SONA media briefing.

However, the party says it does not see itself as the official opposition, but rather as a government in waiting.