CORRECTION OF MEDIA DISTORTIONS ON "IFP LEADERSHIP CRISIS"
Following last week's statement from our former National Organiser Mr Albert Mncwango that he was resigning with immediate effect from the position of National Organiser and the Party's response to it, some sections of the media have created a very unfair and untruthful picture that the IFP is in a crisis, which sees many leaders leaving the Party.
Those who advance this unfortunate theory quote Mrs Zanele KaMagwaza Msibi, Mr Thulasizwe Buthelezi, Dr Bonginkosi Buthelezi, Rev Musa Zondi and Mr Mncwango as leaders who have ditched the Party, which in their view proves that indeed the IFP is in a crisis.
As a member of the Party assigned the duty of Deputy National Spokesperson, I feel compelled to respond to these wrong perceptions which have the potential to sow confusion and despondency among the ranks of our Party, in the hope that those who are spreading them will desist.
I want to show that these conclusions are nothing but utter lies, spread by those who have misinterpreted - deliberately or not - what has happened in the IFP. I will look at each case to show that these leaders cannot be lumped together as though their cases are the same.
a) Mrs KaMagwaza Msibi lost her case in a Court of Law. Her intention was not to leave the IFP; rather she hoped that the Court would force the party to convene the national conference. Having failed in court, she ran away to the NFP, instead of coming back to face the issues that awaited her in the party's National Council of which she was the Chairperson.