The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) on Monday celebrated a court victory against expelled founding member Jabulani Khumalo, noting a series of related court victories against its “detractors” in the past six months.

This after the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria ruled in favour of the MKP, ordering Khumalo to pay punitive costs to the party.

The High Court also ordered Standard Bank to remove Khumalo as a signatory to the MKP bank account held by the bank.

Lat month, Khumalo opened a case of fraud against party leader former President Jacob Zuma, claiming that Zuma unlawfully removed him as a director of the party's non-profit organisation.

“This time Khumalo wanted to hang on. To be a signatory to the MK Party bank account under the pretext that his expulsion is on appeal. This is false because his ill-fated appeal relates only to the issue of the face of the MK Party on the ballot paper which has been long overtaken by events,” the party said.

The MKP further highlighted that it was clear that Khumalo was well funded by “enemies of the MK Party”.

“…he continues to collect punitive cost orders, and we welcome any indirect ANC [African National Congress] donations to the coffers as we build the organisation.”

In June Khumalo filed an urgent High Court bid to stop Parliament and the MKP from removing him from the party list, however, the Electoral Court dismissed his application to be reinstated as party leader.

The MKP noted some court victories, which it said started with the “ANC of [Cyril] Ramaphosa’s” “failed” double challenge to the registration of the MKP in the Electoral Court and the abortive trademark challenge in the Durban High Court.

“Next was a series of “unsuccessful” bids by Khumalo and other expelled members, first in the Electoral Court, then in the Western Cape High Court and now at the Pretoria High Court,” it explained.

The MKP said it would continue to defeat what it termed “the sellout ANC of Cyril Ramaphosa and its planted agents” in the court and on the ground, “until the land and the economy are returned to their rightful owners”.