ANC stalwart and former Chief Whip Tony Yengeni has come out to clarify that he is not joining the Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party as widely alleged in a screenshot doing the rounds on social media and WhatsApp groups.

The vocal Yengeni, who represented MKP leader and former President Jacob Zuma during his disciplinary hearing by the ANC, said the fake poster took words from a statement he made a few years ago about the MK, the military veterans of the ANC, and twisted to make it look as if it is something new.

In part, the poster has these words: “Tony Yengeni: The time has come for me to make my announcement of joining Jacob Zuma to help him build the real MK legacy.”

In response to the poster, Yengeni said the person who created the poster was full of mischief and corrected the narrative that is being peddled.

“Enemies of the revolution at play..Top part is fake & false.. Bottom part about Africa is true..It was part of a political address to ex combatants a few years ago,” Yengeni posted on his X account about the matter.

In January this year, Yengeni landed in hot soup when ANC Secretary-General, Fikile Mbalula announced that he was going to charge him for alleged ill discipline. That was after Yengeni constantly criticised the ANC leadership on social media..

Yengeni has also publicly praised Zuma, earning rebuke from ANC supporters who still feel the MK Party the former president leads contributed to the electoral decline of the former governing party in the May 29 elections last year.

Yengeni, who publicly criticised President Cyril Ramaphosa since his election as ANC leader in 2017, was voted out of the party’s national executive committee (NEC) at the 2022 national conference.