THE Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) says it has received an intelligence report from the police that senior leaders of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) are involved in a plot to assassinate the party’s Secretary-General, Marshall Dlamini.
In a media statement on Tuesday, EFF national spokesperson Sinawo Thambo said the red berets received a briefing from the South African Police Service (SAPS) indicating that senior leaders of the IFP were plotting to kill Dlamini.
“The reliable intelligence reports illustrate that senior leaders of the IFP believe that our secretary-general is solely responsible for the collective decision we took to initiate and support motions of no confidence against IFP mayors in several municipalities in the province,” said Thambo.
“The EFF condemns with contempt the plots to assassinate our SG or any leader for selfish and narrow political purposes. We do not take these reports lightly because the province of KwaZulu-Natal has been defined by many political assassinations for a very long time, a habit which the EFF has never been associated with and has condemned since our formation 10 years ago.”
“When IFP members recurrently, stubbornly and physically disrupted meetings of the EFF in different parts of KZN in 2014, the leadership of the EFF organised a meeting with leadership of the IFP under its former president Mangosuthu Buthelezi and agreed that violence cannot and should never be an instrument of political persuasion.”
However, the IFP has dismissed claims by the EFF about an alleged plot to assassinate Dlamini and called for a full police investigation into the matter.
“Now that these political opportunists realise that the IFP is the biggest challenger in KZN for 2024, they have returned to their own vomit. Suddenly the IFP, with whom they happily worked until we refused to hand over governance of uMhlathuze, is an ‘agent of apartheid’ that ‘only thrives through violence’,” said IFP spokesperson Mkhuleko Hlengwa.
SAPS, however, said it had no knowledge of the EFF’s claims of an alleged assassination plot against Dlamini.
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