Zuma sacks Mpumalanga MK Party leader
Zuma has kicked out yet another MK Party leader, this time the Mpumalanga leader, Mary Phadi.
The constant ‘shifting of the deck chairs on the Titanic’ by Jacob Zuma of the MK Party have now hit the Mpumalanga Legislature (MPL).
Zuma sacked the party’s provincial leader, Mary Phadi, amid allegations of her involvement in a plot to have one of her colleagues assassinated.
Phadi, apparently an influential businesswoman as well as president of the Truckers Association of South Africa (TASA), was kicked out of the MK Party after she apparently refused to resign when the assassination claims came to light.
In August, the alleged victim of the ‘assassination plot’, the party’s MPL General Tough Mdluli, opened a criminal case after he received information about a threat on his life.
On request for comment, the MK Party forwarded a statement to Lowvelder confirming the matter.
It says Phadi was instructed to voluntarily resign from the Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature but refused to do so.
The party said the “president of MKP” [Zuma] then made the decision to revoke Phadi’s membership immediately.
A provincial police spokesperson, Colonel Donald Mdhluli, says they can confirm that an investigation into the matter has been opened and is still ongoing.
