Makhosi Khoza to head new political party
The ANC's former MP, Makhosi Khoza has confirmed to Newswatch that she'll be heading up a new political merger.
"We agreed that we needed to merge all these little parties and come up with something new and non-racial," she says.
She says she'd been approached to lead the new movement.
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She says it will see former disgruntled members of the ANC, DA and EFF coming together.
"We needed something that is about change in South Africa, something that is not going to be complaining about the challenges that we've been confronted with, through the ANC and something that is going to position ourselves as the new leaders of society," she says.
Khoza says the new party members will meet next week.
It's set to contest the 2019 general elections.
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Khoza who had come under fire by the ANC after calling on President Jacob Zuma to step down, resigned from the party in September.
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