He says new party aims to deliver what leading parties have failed to do
Rise Mzansi Leader Songezo Zibi addresses the media at the Launch of the new Movement at Costitutional Hill in Braamfontein Johannesburg. Picture: Freddy Mavunda/Business Day
Zibi, a former Business Day editor and co-founder of think-tank Rivonia Circle, introduced the party’s ideals and its leadership at a launch in Johannesburg on Wednesday, saying it would contest the polls in 2024.“We are open to every South African who wants to build a nation that cares, not a country where only the most privileged enjoy a decent life,” he said.
“At Rise Mzansi, the basis for contribution is an alignment of values and our vision, not party membership. This is the work of patriotic South Africans, not party loyalists.” Good people and patriotic citizens had yielded the political space to people who did not deserve it, which was why the country found itself in the debilitating position it was in, he said.failure, despair, incompetence, and corruption. Millions of its own supporters deserve a better political home, one that takes their valid dreams seriously instead of using them as fodder for personal enrichment and power,” said Zibi.
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