MK Party sends Duduzane Zuma to the ROC as the votes are counted

uMkhonto weSizwe Party put its first deputy president in front of the cameras on Wednesday, sending Duduzane Zuma to the Results Operations Centre for a Newzroom Afrika interview on the 2026 local government elections.

The party announced the interview on its official X account, in a post that carried four photographs from the ROC and the hashtags #VoteMKParty, #LGE2026 and #MasibuyeleBantwini. The post did not carry any figures, seat projections or comment from Zuma himself.

The ROC is where the Electoral Commission of South Africa runs the count and the consolidation of results. A party presence there on polling day is a public statement of confidence in the process and a place to be seen while the numbers come in. MK’s post framed the interview as Zuma “sharing his insights” on the elections, without saying what those insights were.

Zuma holds the title of first deputy president in the party. The post gives no detail on what he told Newzroom Afrika, and the party has not released a fuller account of the interview in the material available.

What the party is telling its supporters, in the post’s own words, is to vote MK and to keep the election framed around #MasibuyeleBantwini, the slogan it has carried into this campaign. The post is a campaign message as much as an announcement of a broadcast booking.

The 2026 local government elections decide councils across the country, and the Results Operations Centre is where those outcomes are declared. MK’s public activity at the ROC is part of how it wants to be seen while that happens.

The party’s account did not say what result it expects, and no figures were attached to the post.