Zuma Calls For Mk Party Two-thirds Majority In 2026 Elections

UMkhonto Wesizwe Party leader Jacob Zuma has urged the community of Mamelodi outside Pretoria to mobilise ahead of next years local government elections to ensure a two-thirds majority for the party.

Zuma was speaking at the partys Freedom Day celebrations.

The event, billed as a Solomon Mahlangu lecture, saw several hundred supporters fill up the small square named after Mahlangu, where they were treated to a lengthy address by Zuma and entertainment by the local learners.

Former Presidents programme on Freedom Day began with a visit to the Khosi Mampuru Correctional Facility in Pretoria, where the young freedom fighter Solomon Mahlangu was held after his capture, arrest, and subsequent sentencing to death in March 1977.

Zuma had met Mahlangu personally when he was stationed in Mozambique and dealt with many exiles, including Mahlangu, who arrived in that country seeking military training in the wake of the 1976 Soweto student uprising.