Johannesburg - Former president Jacob Zuma’s uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has for the second time fired Arthur Zwane as the party’s secretary-general.
This is less than a month after he was reinstated to the position. Zwane was fired earlier last month together with the treasury general Danisa Zulu.
Zwane replaced former secretary-general Sihle Ngubane who was deployed to Parliament.
In a letter directed to Zwane, Zuma told him that he was fired because of misleading the party.
However, details on how Zwane misled the party remain unclear.
“I refer to the letter I wrote to you on June 28 in which I, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, as President of the uMkhonto Wesizwe Party (MKP) expressed my decision to you to relieve you from the position of Secretary General of the Party.
“I therefore reconfirm my earlier decision to you and thus expect you to cooperate fully with my decision and desist from continuing to serve in this capacity.
“Furthermore, owing to your conduct of misleading the party, I reserve the right to expel you from the Party with immediate effect,” the letter read.
Three weeks after being named the party's secretary-general in June, Zwane resigned, citing an inability to handle the workload but Zuma, allegedly rejected his resignation.
"In the last 2 weeks, I have realised that the volume of work in my office is huge and beyond my limits, especially because I have other competing business interests that I'm pursuing,” quoted from his letter.
But it was later revealed that Zwane only resigned because he was expelled and not because of what he claimed to be.
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