Mngxitama joined the Economic Freedom Fighters in its early days in 2013 and was ranked tenth on the party's national candidate list for the May 2014 general election.
[1] At the EFF's leadership conference in December 2014, Mngxitama declined the nomination to serve on the party's Central Command Team.
In July 2017, e-mails surfaced suggesting that Mngxitama received instructions from the Guptas and their contracted PR company Bell Pottinger.
[4][5] Bell Pottinger was subsequently suspended by the British Public Relations and Communications Association for "exploiting and creating racial divisions in South Africa" for five years.
[11] In January 2024, Mngxitama announced that he had joined the Umkhonto we Sizwe party, although he stated that BLF would not cease to exist, and that it was an electoral pact.