UMKHONTO we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) President Kebby Maphatsoe has hit back at the ANC’s national working committee’s ‘decision’ to disband the organisation.
This follows a meeting on Thursday in which ANC deputy Secretary-General Jessie Duarte informed Maphatsoe that the party’s NWC has decided to disband MKMVA, and has ordered it to establish an MK Inclusive Preparatory Committee to prepare for a unitary conference of MK veterans.
Maphatose said the decision by the party’s NWC to disband the MKMVA has come as a big surprise because the party’s national office bearers, including President Cyril Ramaphosa, recently instructed him together with the chairperson of the Peace and Stability Committee of the NEC, Tony Yengeni, to convene an MK unity conference.
He dismissed suggestions that the association has been disbanded.
Maphatsoe said no ANC NEC meeting has met and decided to disband the MKMVA, contrary to the decision taken by the
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