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MKMVA members protest in Durban.
- MKMVA President Kebby Maphatsoe says members trying to close roads in Durban consulted national structures before doing so.
- He said members were frustrated by a number of issues, including corruption and non-implementation of the 2017 ANC resolutions.
- Maphatsoe says that those who marched to the ANC KZN offices intended to do so peacefully.
Umkhonto WeSizwe Military Association (MKMVA) President Kebby Maphatsoe says members demonstrating in KwaZulu-Natal have full support from the national level.
He says that MK veterans in KZN have been suffering and consulting on ways to solve some of their challenges for some time, but felt that marching to the ANC headquarters in the province was the best course of action after everyone else. attempts had failed.
This, as some of the association’s members try to close some roads in and around Durban, demanding that the resolutions of the 2017 ANC elective conference be implemented, action be taken against the corrupt and their own provincial executive committee eliminated. .
Maphatsoe said there were divisions in the association, claiming that some of the frustrations came from the MKMVA and the MK council, led by former generals and ANC liberation army commissioners for the inability to hold an all-inclusive conference.
#KZNshutdown MKMVA members are shutting down some parts of KZN, including DBN. Their demands include “implementation of the resolutions of the ANC conference, resignation of corrupt, thieves, criminals and current lumper ANC called PEC”. They also demand “luxury homes”. #NCA. pic.twitter.com/PE7J0hXGtk
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The conference was postponed several times before closing, which saw a ban on large gatherings.
“Because there [not] Having been a unity conference as a result of the closure, most of these structures have been paralyzed, “Maphatsoe explained.
MKMVA and the MK council represent two warring factions, with the latter emerging in the run-up to the ANC Nasrec conference, calling for a cleanup of the associate and refocusing its attention on the needs of the ruling party’s military veterans.
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The association has previously been criticized for operating as “henchmen”, alongside former president Jacob Zuma’s youth league ANC, attacking those seen to be in opposition to the former leader.
Just last month, the MKMVA, following its own meeting of the national executive committee, attacked the president of the ANC, Cyril Ramaphosa, and his NEC, calling for it to disband.
He said that most of the MKMVA provincial executive committees had served their terms for a long time and as a result some of the issues they are supposed to promote have not received the necessary attention.
Maphatsoe said that his comrades who were upset in KZN had contacted the ANC PEC led by President Sihle Zikalala, however, after his first meeting with the MKMVA in that province, attempts to continue the talks were blocked, calling to the disgruntled illegitimate.
“They got angry, took their own initiative on these issues and went to the ANC.”
He said that when they consulted with the national office, they expressed frustration at the suffering of ex-combatants, saying that some were dying and that the association’s PEC was not taking any of their concerns seriously.
Maphatsoe said that those who demonstrated did so peacefully, and not as individuals but as members of the association.
He also said that since alert level 1 of the lockdown had been implemented, he hoped this would give the MKMVA an opportunity to meet with affected members to resolve the matter.
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