Political analyst Levy Ndou says domestic politics could have influenced former Public Protector Busisiwe Mkhwebane’s decision to resign from the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).
She announced yesterday that she was leaving the EFF, the party that she represented in Parliament for the past year.
Mkhwebane joined the EFF shortly after her removal from office in September 2023 and became an MP a month later.
Ndou says Mkhwebane’s resignation comes as no surprise.
He says, “Her membership into the EFF came at a time when she was all down low, facing a lot of challenges as a person in her career and the EFF was available to accommodate her and save her. What we are not sure of is as to whether, indeed, her heart was in the EFF. We also need to look at the fact that Busisiwe Mkwebane’s husband is in another political party and there could have been a possibility that there would have been discussion domestically about their political home.”
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