By Lance Guma
The Information and Publicity Secretary of the MDC-T South African Province has denied a Herald newspaper story claiming the entire executive was sacked for misappropriating funds.
Speaking to Newsreel on Tuesday Sibanengi Dube told us a group of 3 people ‘who are not in the structures,’ but have always harboured intentions of toppling the executive, met and made the resolutions.
The state owned Herald newspaper article meanwhile claimed that a marathon meeting of representatives from 9 districts met last week in Johannesburg and recalled the Austin Moyo led executive. Some of the recalled members were listed as Rodgers Mudarikwa, William Mabona, Philemon Moyo and Amon Ndlovu, in addition to Dube and Moyo.
But a furious Dube charged, “The Herald got wind of clownish conduct and decided to make headlines out of it. The 3 officials are running the MDC-SA only in the Herald. It is obvious to everyone the Herald is on a mission to discredit the MDC-T.”
Dube said the 3 officials; Judge Ncube, Farayi Goodmore Mudzembwe and Learnmore Kodzi either had links to other political parties or were simply power hungry. He said Ncube was a former MDC-SA chair who lost the last elections; Kodzi was a member of the newly reformed ZAPU in SA, while Mudzembwe had links to ZANU PF.
Responding to claims that the MDC-T office in South Africa had been closed because of the problems, Dube said this was not true. He said the main benefactor who had been paying for their office rent had stopped doing so because his business was not doing well. He however said they had secured alternative office space which they were in the process of moving into.
When asked about the coup plotters, he responded, “As I speak to you, I’m sure the Secretary has already served them with letters of suspension for bringing the party into disrepute,” SW Radio Africa
