Former Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) spokesperson and Member of Parliament (MP), Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, has officially resigned from the party, South Africa’s fourth-largest political organisation.
Ndlozi confirmed his departure from the EFF in an exclusive interview with SABC News earlier this week. <a href="https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/mbuyiseni-ndlozi-resigns-as-eff-member-5c751909-6dc0-4ea7-a99c-fdf32174a493">He said</a>:
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I am leaving party politics, I believe I have made my contribution in that space.
We don’t live in a one-party state, we are not in camps or a band. Politics in South Africa is a free activity, and party politics are not the only way to contribute to society.
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Ndlozi said he will now venture into academia and surely contribute to civil society.
He also revealed that he made several attempts to the party’s leadership to initiate an investigation into claims that he was planning to leave the EFF and join the MK Party. However, he said he received no response from the leadership.
Ndlozi admitted that his time with the EFF effectively ended at the December convention, which led to his decision to leave politics entirely.
He said his conspicuous absence from the party’s Elective Conference in December, saying he had been suspended for approximately a month and two weeks before the Third National People’s Assembly (NPA) held that month.
Ndlozi explained that the suspension stemmed from his knowledge of then-deputy president Floyd Shivambu’s plans to join the MK Party, as well as suspicions that he was allegedly working with the MKP. He said:
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I was suspended about six weeks before the EFF conference and the suspension was unconventional in that it didn’t rely on the code of conduct of the EFF summoned by its constitution.
They claimed that I was part of the infiltration strategy by the MK Party and the second was the fact that I knew about Shivambu’s departure.
In December, party leader Julius Malema refuted all the claims that Ndlozi was suspended.
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Ndlozi declared that he had no plans on joining MKP led by former president Jacob Zuma. He said:
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I can state categorically now that I never planned to join the MKP I still don’t, I never worked with anyone in the MKP in relation to some conspiracy about my departure. The information they had was based largely on lies.
I did know about the departure of Floyd Shivambu, he told me about his considerations, and I told him to take the leadership into confidence, he did.
The idea that I should have run behind his back and informed other people or the leadership suggests that I’m an informant, a gossiper or a wedge driver, I am none of those.
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Ndlozi resigned as an EFF MP after losing his seat on the party’s highest decision-making body, the Central Command Team (CCT).
This followed his exclusion from the party’s elective conference in December, where Malema said that Ndlozi was no longer considered a leader of the EFF.
Despite widespread support for him to become the deputy president of the EFF, Ndlozi was not allowed to stand for a position at the conference.
Malema made it clear that he would not work with people he believed were undermining the revolution.

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Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, former EFF spokesperson, has officially resigned from the party. He will now focus on academia and civil society. He tried to initiate an investigation into claims that he was leaving EFF for another party, but got no response. Ndlozi was suspended before the EFF conference in December due to suspicions about his knowledge of other party members' plans and alleged conspiracies. Despite support to become deputy president of the EFF, he was excluded and lost his seat on the party's highest decision-making body. Malema said he would not work with those he believed were undermining the revolution.

Mbuyiseni Ndlozi Resigns From EFF

Popular Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) MP and the party’s former national spokesperson, Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, has resigned from Parliament.
The EFF, South Africa’s fourth-largest political party, announced Ndlozi’s resignation on Thursday.
Ndlozi, who has served as an MP since May 2014, did not attend the party’s national congress at Nasrec, Johannesburg, in December 2024. The EFF’s press statement reads in part:
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The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has received the voluntary resignations of Fighter Yazini Tetyana and Fighter Dr. Mbuyiseni Ndlozi as representatives of the EFF in the Parliament of South Africa.
The voluntary requests to be released from deployment, which were sent to the Secretary General of the EFF consecutively and within days of each other, expressed gratitude to the EFF for the opportunity to serve the organization and the people of South Africa.
The EFF has accepted the respective voluntary requests to be released from deployment of the two Fighters, who have diligently served the organization in their respective deployments since the EFF has had representation in the legislative sphere.
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Ndlozi skipped the party’s third elective congress amid reports of a fallout with party leader Julius Malema and uncertainty about his future in the party.
Tetyana, who was the EFF’s leader in the Eastern Cape, also served as a member of the Eastern Cape legislature before joining the national Parliament.
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Mbuyiseni Ndlozi, a popular member of the South African political party EFF, has resigned from Parliament. The party announced his resignation. Ndlozi did not attend the party's national congress. Another member, Yazini Tetyana, also resigned. Both thanked the EFF for the opportunity to serve. Ndlozi skipped the party's congress due to a rumored dispute with the party leader. Tetyana was a leader in the Eastern Cape before joining Parliament. The EFF has accepted their resignations.

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