By Celani Sikhakhane
Dr Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala, the former EFF MP who initiated the “pay back the money” protest against the upgrade to former president Jacob Zuma’s R250-million Nkandla homestead, has joined the Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) party led by Zuma.
Litchfield-Tshabalala announced this on Ntsiki Mazwai’s podcast.
“You know what? I have decided to join the Umkhonto Wesizwe party … I have thought about this thoroughly,” she said.
Litchfield-Tshabalala was the first black woman to become an admiral in the SA Navy.
She left the EFF in 2015 after clashing with its leader, Julius Malema, and trying to remove him at the party’s first elective conference.
She quit her parliament seat in 2015.
After being expelled from the EFF with Andile Mngxitama and Mpho Ramakatsa, she joined Bantu Holomisa’s United Democratic Movement (UDM) as deputy president.
She left the UDM within a year to finish her PhD at Atlantic University in Hawaii, later joining the Pan Africanist Congress.
Her “pay back the money” chant became a parliamentary anthem, frustrating Zuma and causing him to avoid parliamentary sessions.
Pictured above: Dr Khanyisile Litchfield-Tshabalala, former EFF MP and “pay back the money” instigator against Jacob Zuma, has joined the Umkhonto Wesizwe party.
Source: X
