S.Africa: ANC Infiltrators in IFP (Zulu) causing dissension?

[Back in 2001, I said that I believed the IFP was dying and that I believed the ANC would kill it through various machinations. I said they would probably use infiltrators, spies and moles to destroy the IFP from within.

It has now come out in recent media reports that there is serious strife at the top of the IFP. Jiyane might be an ANC mole.

Buthelezi, the leader of the IFP said the other day that ANC moles were causing dissension.

I also believe that Mugabe is using similar tactics against the MDC. Jan]

Cape Town - The Inkatha Freedom Party executive has condemned national chair Ziba Jiyane's "defiance" in addressing a youth rally at Umlazi in Durban on Saturday.

In a statement on Monday, the executive said it had noted the decision by some members of the IFP Youth Brigade and student wing, the SA Democratic Student Movement (Sadesmo), to go ahead with the rally despite an instruction from IFP secretary general Musa Zondi not to proceed.

'Disdain for discipline

"No political party or organisation can tolerate such a display of disdain for discipline and internal cohesion," it said.

The executive also condemned "in the strongest terms possible", Jiyane's claims, reported in the media, that the party was run in a dictatorial fashion.

This was not only a travesty of truth, but could only serve to bring the party's good name into disrepute, it said.

"The executive further condemns the national chairperson's untruthful and disgraceful insinuations about the president of the IFP (Mangosuthu Buthelezi) and distances itself from them.

"The executive wishes to place on record its unequivocal support for the leadership of Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi and to make it clear that this coterie of mischief makers does not speak in any way for the overwhelming majority of members of the IFP who wholeheartedly support his leadership."

Urgent meeting called

The executive had called for an urgent meeting of the National Council of the Inkatha Freedom Party to address the matter.

"It is in this forum that this matter will be resolved, not in the headlines of the media which, unfortunately, some in our midst have chosen to do. This meeting will be held on a day to be announced soon," the statement read.

Source: News24.Com

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