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'We're not friends': Mbete tells residents not to vote for MK Party, says Zuma has 'gone crazy'

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Former National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete on the campaign trail for the ANC in Ekurhuleni. (@MYANC/X formerly Twitter)
Former National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete on the campaign trail for the ANC in Ekurhuleni. (@MYANC/X formerly Twitter)

Former deputy president and Speaker of the National Assembly, Baleka Mbete, cautioned voters against allowing the newly formed uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK) Party to confuse them in the voting booth. 

Mbete, during a door-to-door campaign in Palm Ridge, Ekurhuleni, said the MK Party was established by a man who had "gone crazy".

She was referring to former president Jacob Zuma, with whom she worked closely when she served in the ANC's top six between 2007 and 2017.

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