Watch – Flying too close to the sun(s): Floyd Shivambu, SA’s political Icarus

Once a firebrand of the EFF, now a brief resident of Zuma’s MK party, Floyd Shivambu is re-emerging, this time with plans to launch his own political movement. But after being sidelined in yet another party power struggle, is this a comeback or just more political wandering? Marianne Thamm unpacks the theatrics, the ideology, and the irony.

By Marianne Thamm

3 Jul

Floyd Shivambu (Composite image: Maverick Studios)

Reporting by: Marianne Thamm
Filmed by: Bernard Kotze & Joel Seboa
Edited by: Joel Seboa
Produced by: Emilie Gambade
Sub-edited by: Kevin Flynn

Marianne Thamm is a South African journalist, author and stand-up comedian. She is the assistant editor of the Daily Maverick and has written several books. In 2016, she released the memoir, Hitler, Verwoerd, Mandela and me.

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Watch – Flying too close to the sun(s): Floyd Shivambu, SA’s political Icarus

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