Cape Town — The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has claimed there has been internal sabotage from a power Church group, All African Alliance Movement (AAAM).
The MK party fired 18 members from the party this week, saying they would be replaced in their positions in the National Assembly (NA). The Party said the members were not meant to be sworn in on 25 June, and were always supposed to be replaced.
However, the party said the AAAM members were fired after the party discovered their true intentions. A source revealed that the group sued the MK party for their personal agenda, IOL reported.
“Two lists were submitted for our parliamentary deployers which included one from their group which we did know about. Part of it was our fault. We were caught on the back foot after our success at the elections,”
The source revealed that the party did not have a proper team and relied on volunteers for support. As a result, no proper checks were done and now the issues are starting to reveal themselves.
MK terminated 20 party memberships, resulting by law that these 20 loses the MP positions.😭
MK fired 20 of their own MPs😆😂🤣.
MK will turn themself inside out before 2029.😔 pic.twitter.com/lfszzpcsqx— Heinz (@HeinzWakanda) August 8, 2024
AAAM senior leader, William Maluleke, confirmed that all the fired members were from the organisation.. He said they had agreed with the MK Party that they would handle admin and the party would handle military. However, most of those in Parliament were from Joburg and the party wanted more people from KZN to control what happened with in the party.
“We brought our support to MK and now we are just fired because of our numbers. Zuma’s daughter Duduzile and their party spokesperson Nhlamulo is behind all this,” Maluleke said.
He said the agreement with the party was a ‘gentleman’s agreement’ and not in writing so they have decided not to pursue any legal action and just go their separate ways.
The AAAM movement is a powerful church-based organisation which supported the MK party before elections. It has over 14 million members and was previously headed by former chief justice Mogoeng Mogoeng.
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