@Trending: Public reaction to former MKP Secretary-General Floyd Shivambu's fiery interview in which he dissed Jacob Zuma's daughter

Never far from them news, polarising former MK Party Secretary-General Floyd Shivambu is a hot topic on X:

@54Battalion There is no cult in the EFF – Floyd Shivambu.

@ApostleDeza The Great Pretence: Floyd Shivambu’s Secret Bid to Launch Mayibuye Party. Shivambu’s claim that he is merely 'consulting' the public about the possibility of forming a new political party is misleading at best. While publicly posturing as if no decision has been made. His inner circle is actively collecting the required signatures in terms of Annexure 6 to register Mayibuye as a political party. This process signals clear intent and commitment, not consultation. This covert mobilisation exposes a double game: Public indecision, private execution. The silence of the mainstream media on this calculated deception raises serious questions. Are they complicit, captured, or simply asleep at the wheel while a significant political shift unfolds in the shadows?
MK Party Must Expel Floyd Shivambu man! They are taking too long!

@lunietoolz A social activist, black business evangelist, and president of the Mayibuye Civic Movement, Mr Tukela Zumani, has publicly rejected the use or intended use of their movement’s name by Mr Floyd Shivambu’s new political vehicle.

@MbalulaFikile Floyd Shivambu has been in a horrible political accident where he got used then tossed aside. #NUMCongress2025

@ThisIsColbert Jacob Zuma wanted to appoint Floyd Shivambu to be the president of MK Party and he rejected it because he has tremendous respect for Nxamalala! Establishing a political party on gossip is madness, the media is giving him a platform to sh¡t on the EFF, MKP & the ANC.

@Am_Blujay Floyd Shivambu is being sued for calling party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela a ‘drunk and drugged fool’ during an eNCA interview. He also insulted Jacob Zuma’s daughter, Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla, as ‘directionless and gullible’. Ndhlela demands a public apology. The controversy follows Shivambu’s exit from the MK Party and suggests his intent to start a new political movement, stirring South Africa’s political landscape.

@Patricia_Bantom Floyd Shivambu must not accept the offer of deputy president. They clearly said he is not a problem, but Mayibuye is a problem. They want him to stop establishing it and purge him again. It will be difficult to start over.(Duduzile) Clear your name by taking a public drug test. How you were laughing when Floyd Shivambu was demoted, you thought you conquered him? Nope.

@joy_zelda Floyd Shivambu will be the new MKP Deputy President Duduzile Nhlamulo Jacob Zuma.

@ZizinjaAbelungu 'You find these youth and student activist, they think it’s revolutionary to throw insults at people' – Floyd Shivambu.  A few months later: 'Political scoundrels of MK Party', 'An imbecile, a fool call Nhlamulo Ndlela, he is always on drugs and high on alcohol', 'Gullible and directionless daughter of President Zuma'.

@Rakgadi_EM My entire life I never saw such a self-destructive person like Floyd Shivambu.

@Mzansipresser Dear Floyd Shivambu, please note that South Africans are tired of talkers,. We want political parties who do work on the ground.

@MudauMulamu_ZA The amplified voice of the voiceless masses: Nyiko Floyd Shivambu.

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