MKMVA condemns the Minister of State Security for her ill-disciplined and factional behaviour, and calls for unity and discipline in the ANC election campaign
25 March 2019
The Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association( (MKMVA) is dismayed by the ill-disciplined and divisive conduct of the Minister of State Security, comrade Dipuo Letsatsi-Duba, who without any cause or reason attacked the Secretary General of the African National Congress (ANC), comrade Ace Magashule.
It is evident from the facts that comrade Letsatsi-Duba peddled baseless lies on social media that comrade Magashule had tampered with the candidate list of the ANC, based on a photo that was taken by a staff member of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in the offices of the IEC, while the ANC Secretary General was on request of the IEC busy comparing the ANC electronic candidate list with the hard copy of the very same candidate list that he submitted in person to the IEC. This the Secretary General did in compliance with his duties as the ANC SG, and in that capacity also as Chair of the National ANC List Committee.
Comrade Magashule conducted his duties with regards to the finalisation of the ANC candidate list in an exemplary democratic, transparent and organisationally sound manner. He should be congratulated for a job done well, under difficult circumstances.
For comrade Lersatsi-Duba instead to deliberately miss-interpret an entirely innocent and above board photograph as part of the malicious lies that she disseminated on social media is unconsciable. If there was any reasonable doubt in comrade Lersatsi-Duba's mind - which we seriously doubt - she had as an NEC member every possible opportunity and avenue available to her to contact comrade Magashule, check the real facts and get her warped and crooked suspicions straightened out.