IFP: Don't Drag IFP into ANC Battles
The IFP has warned the SACP not to drag the IFP into the internal battles of the ANC the party said in a strong statement issued today in response to the statement issued by the SACP Spokesperson Mr Maleseka Maleka, in which he accused the IFP President of having claimed that all Zulus were members of the Inkatha. Maleka said this when he was defending the SACP General Secretary, Dr Blade Nzimande, from accusations of previous association with the IFP.
Speaking for the IFP, the IFP Deputy National Spokesperson Joshua Mazibuko said:
"The IFP takes strong exception to Mr Maleseka Maleka peddling a lie against our President, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi and our organisation, just because he is desperate to save the political life of his Master.
"It is a lie to say that Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi ever claimed that all Zulus were members of Inkatha. I urge the media to demand irrefutable evidence from Maleka to support his utterances or to issue a public apology to our President and the IFP.
"Again Maleka is on record in the electronic media accusing Inkatha of having hands that are dripping with blood. This is an insult to more than 20 000 of Inkatha members and about 400 of our leaders who lost their lives in that tragic black-on-black low-intensity civil war that engulfed our country in the 80's and the 90's. Does Maleka suggest that all these IFP members died at the hands of their Comrades in Inkatha?