Mkhwebane dumps EFF
EFF MP Advocate Busisiwe Mkhwebane has resigned from the party.
She first made the announcement on Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh’s podcast, SMWX.
“The next step is that I’ll be resigning soon from the EFF and then it means I’m resigning from Parliament,” Mkhwebane said.
The former Public Protector found refuge in the EFF after she was impeached. One of her reasons for leaving the party is she feels her expertise is underutilised.
Mkhwebane said: “The impact I used to make as a Public Protector is not the impact I’m currently making.”
She was an ordinary MP serving in the Justice and Constitutional Development portfolio committee.
Mkhwebane didn’t immediately say which party will be her next political home, only revealing that uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party has been courting her.
“They have approached me several times, even before Floyd left. I don’t have anything against them. It will depend on whether they are still interested. I’ll see,” she said.
EFF’s former second in command Floyd Shivambu ditched the party for former President Jacob Zuma’s MK party in August. Mkhwebane admitted that politics was not her pace and she’s still learning.
She also pointed out that she didn’t make any impact in changing people’s lives.
She said the government could do more if progressive parties worked together instead of the ANC choosing to work with the DA in the Government of National Unity.
“Being in Parliament is terrible because when you don’t have numbers. There’s nothing you can do. Even in municipalities these people don’t care. The ANC and the DA, you can see in the Tshwane municipality, which was run by the DA. People died of diarrhoea in Hammanskraal,” she said.
Mkhwebane said the current situation is worse, as people don’t have water, unemployment is high, and electricity is expensive.
In a subsequent letter she wrote to EFF leader Julius Malema, Mkhwebane thanked him and the fighters for supporting her “in my time of need” and offering her refuge in the past 12 months.
“Now, it’s time for me to focus on spending cherished moments with my family,” she said.
