Opinion / Columnist
Which party do you belong to mama MaKhumalo!
05 Jul 2011 at 14:38hrs | Views
ONE thing that runs through all political movements, media houses,churches and cult groups is that a member of one cannot be a member of another or be seen actively participating inn activities of another without any knowledge of the other.
The important of this unwritten rule is usually linked to the sacred issues of ideologies, conflict of interest amongst other important believes that govern political and or church organization.
However the same seems not to read true for one Nomalanga Mzilikazi Khumalo alias mama MaKhumalo who somehow does a lot of critical political things with another party the Movement for Democratic Changeled by Mr Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC T) and is officially a member - Hide quoted text - of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Professor Welshman Ncube (MDC) and be appointed as a very senior official in another MDC formation led by Professor Arthur Mutambara.
Her story is an interesting one. Accordingly hereunder are the fascinating facts of her political machinations.
When the then the untied MDC split on 12 October 2005, Nomalanga Khumalo (who in this article will be referred to as mama Khumalo) went with the late Gibson Sibanda, Prof Ncube, Mozes Mzila Ndlovu amongst others and was elected as the secretary for environment in the 2006 congress held in Bulawayo.
In the elections that followed, mama maKhumalo was re-elected as a member of parliament for Umzingwane under the Prof Ncube led MDC.
She was latter alleged to have gone to the "famous" Botswana trip where MDC MPs were allegedly bribed not to vote for their party speakership candidate Paul Themba Nyathi.
Alongside her in alleged Botswana bribe beneficiaries was Abednico Bhebhe from Nkayi South, Njabuliso Nguni of Lupane East, Norman Mpofu from Bulilima East, Thandeko Zinti Mkandla from Gwanda North and Maxwell Dube from Tsholotsho South.
What is important here to note is that the Prof Ncube MDC did not have a candidate for the speaker of parliament declared officially and Zanu PF and MDC T had their national chairs – Simon Khaya Moyo and Lovemore Moyo – declared officially as candidates for that post.
The conspiracy then comes when you take into consideration that for a person to be nominated as a speaker of parliament candidate, that person must go through the whole process of designating his / her polling agents, preparing the profile and agreeing on the person who will nominate you and who will second the nomination for the candidature.
Very senior MDC people who sit in parliament have told me that all this process was never internally done by mama maKhumalo and surprisingly a nomination for her came and was seconded.
This simply means she was working behind her party's back and thus working in variance with the Prof Ncube MDC she belongs to.
To make matters worse, both MDC T and Zanu PF backed her Deputy Speakership candidature without her party's knowledge and or consent.
Perhaps it is important at this point to state that after "rebel" legislators Bhebhe, Nguni and Mpofu were sacked in the MDC , they formed a loose coalition of MPs which came to be known as Four by Four, and mama maKhumalo was heavily linked to it.
One might attempt to refute that she is part of those who were frustrated under the leadership of Professor Arthur Mutambara in the MDC. But no – she seems to have not.
That is far from the truth because after the fateful national council meeting of 7 January 2011, the then national chairman of MDC-N Joubert Mudzumwe and others walked away from the meeting place and went to a hotel where they announced that mama maKhumalo is their new Vice President taking over from the late Gibson Sibanda.
This Mudzumwe statement has not been refuted publicly or privately by mama maKhumalo seven months down the line and to date.
And the MDC congress of 7-9 January surprisingly went on despite the Mudzunwe statement to elect her into the party's national executive led by Prof Ncube as an ordinary member.
Sources in all camps say she has not attended any of the party's meetings and neither did she attend the Prof Mutambara national council of May 2011.
Interestingly, when the Mudzumwe group met and decided to withdraw some of the presidential powers of Prof Mutambara, they did not give them to "their deputy president" – mama maKhumalo but to Mudzumwe.
In early June 2011, mama maKhumalo organized a meeting in Munkula ward in her constituency and some of the speakers included MDC T provincial chairperson, Watchy Sibanda, who is on record of threatening Prof Ncube with unspecified action during the infamous split of 2005 and since then does not say hie to the constitutional law expert.
My sincere query is summarized as below:
Imagine someone being an MP on a party A ticket, attending a party B meeting whose meeting agenda is to sabotage the efforts of parry A to access power.
They then are elected into a leadership position with the support of parties B and C.
Later they serve as a deputy president of party D while they are still a national executive member of party A.
A reply is duly solicited for mama maKhumalo and clear the fog in your illustrious political career.
Busani Ncube is a freelance journalist and activist. Ncube.busani@gmail.com
The important of this unwritten rule is usually linked to the sacred issues of ideologies, conflict of interest amongst other important believes that govern political and or church organization.
However the same seems not to read true for one Nomalanga Mzilikazi Khumalo alias mama MaKhumalo who somehow does a lot of critical political things with another party the Movement for Democratic Changeled by Mr Morgan Tsvangirai (MDC T) and is officially a member - Hide quoted text - of the Movement for Democratic Change led by Professor Welshman Ncube (MDC) and be appointed as a very senior official in another MDC formation led by Professor Arthur Mutambara.
Her story is an interesting one. Accordingly hereunder are the fascinating facts of her political machinations.
When the then the untied MDC split on 12 October 2005, Nomalanga Khumalo (who in this article will be referred to as mama Khumalo) went with the late Gibson Sibanda, Prof Ncube, Mozes Mzila Ndlovu amongst others and was elected as the secretary for environment in the 2006 congress held in Bulawayo.
In the elections that followed, mama maKhumalo was re-elected as a member of parliament for Umzingwane under the Prof Ncube led MDC.
She was latter alleged to have gone to the "famous" Botswana trip where MDC MPs were allegedly bribed not to vote for their party speakership candidate Paul Themba Nyathi.
Alongside her in alleged Botswana bribe beneficiaries was Abednico Bhebhe from Nkayi South, Njabuliso Nguni of Lupane East, Norman Mpofu from Bulilima East, Thandeko Zinti Mkandla from Gwanda North and Maxwell Dube from Tsholotsho South.
What is important here to note is that the Prof Ncube MDC did not have a candidate for the speaker of parliament declared officially and Zanu PF and MDC T had their national chairs – Simon Khaya Moyo and Lovemore Moyo – declared officially as candidates for that post.
The conspiracy then comes when you take into consideration that for a person to be nominated as a speaker of parliament candidate, that person must go through the whole process of designating his / her polling agents, preparing the profile and agreeing on the person who will nominate you and who will second the nomination for the candidature.
Very senior MDC people who sit in parliament have told me that all this process was never internally done by mama maKhumalo and surprisingly a nomination for her came and was seconded.
This simply means she was working behind her party's back and thus working in variance with the Prof Ncube MDC she belongs to.
To make matters worse, both MDC T and Zanu PF backed her Deputy Speakership candidature without her party's knowledge and or consent.
One might attempt to refute that she is part of those who were frustrated under the leadership of Professor Arthur Mutambara in the MDC. But no – she seems to have not.
That is far from the truth because after the fateful national council meeting of 7 January 2011, the then national chairman of MDC-N Joubert Mudzumwe and others walked away from the meeting place and went to a hotel where they announced that mama maKhumalo is their new Vice President taking over from the late Gibson Sibanda.
This Mudzumwe statement has not been refuted publicly or privately by mama maKhumalo seven months down the line and to date.
And the MDC congress of 7-9 January surprisingly went on despite the Mudzunwe statement to elect her into the party's national executive led by Prof Ncube as an ordinary member.
Sources in all camps say she has not attended any of the party's meetings and neither did she attend the Prof Mutambara national council of May 2011.
Interestingly, when the Mudzumwe group met and decided to withdraw some of the presidential powers of Prof Mutambara, they did not give them to "their deputy president" – mama maKhumalo but to Mudzumwe.
In early June 2011, mama maKhumalo organized a meeting in Munkula ward in her constituency and some of the speakers included MDC T provincial chairperson, Watchy Sibanda, who is on record of threatening Prof Ncube with unspecified action during the infamous split of 2005 and since then does not say hie to the constitutional law expert.
My sincere query is summarized as below:
Imagine someone being an MP on a party A ticket, attending a party B meeting whose meeting agenda is to sabotage the efforts of parry A to access power.
They then are elected into a leadership position with the support of parties B and C.
Later they serve as a deputy president of party D while they are still a national executive member of party A.
A reply is duly solicited for mama maKhumalo and clear the fog in your illustrious political career.
Busani Ncube is a freelance journalist and activist. Ncube.busani@gmail.com
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