By Celani Sikhakhane
- Nolubabalo Mcinga says former Mayibuye members want her to lead a new movement that will tackle poverty with the MK Party and ATM.
- Mcinga says commissions of enquiry waste money that should go to struggling students who can’t afford university fees.
Nolubabalo Mcinga, the former deputy president of the Afrika Mayibuye Movement, is launching a new civil society group that will work with the uMkhonto weSizwe Party and the African Transformation Movement.
Mcinga says she was pushed to take the step after several former members of the movement approached her. They believe a new organisation is needed to fight for poor communities that are being left behind.
“People who left Afrika Mayibuye Movement asked me to form a social movement that will work with the MK Party and ATM,” she said.
Mcinga says she has already met with MK Party leader Jacob Zuma to tell him about the plan.
“The mission is to fight for the betterment of poor South Africans,” she said.
Mcinga is strongly against the government’s continued use of commissions of enquiry, saying they are expensive and useless.
“Words, hearings and commissions have never freed black people from poverty,” she said. “These processes protect the interests of the elite and do nothing for ordinary people.”
She slammed the Zondo Commission and similar inquiries, saying the billions spent should have gone to poor students trying to access university.
She said the country does not need more reports and hearings that change nothing on the ground.
“The black child in QwaQwa who may never reach a university lecture hall will not be rescued from poverty through hearings, submissions or theoretical debates,” said Mcinga.
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Pictured above: Former Afrika Mayibuye Movement deputy president Nolubabalo Mcinga with MKP leader Jacob Zuma
Image source: MKP
