10 August 2010

The Inkatha Freedom Party has rejected reports that the IFP Women's Brigade in eThekwini has called on Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi to step down from the leadership of the IFP. The IFP's statement follows a report in today's Isolezwe to the effect that IFP women who met yesterday at the Dalton Hostel in eThekwini said they were sick-and-tired of Prince Buthelezi's leadership. 

In a hard-hitting statement she issued today, Mrs. Ncamsile Nkwanyana, the IFP Women's Brigade KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Chairperson said:

"As the IFP Women's Brigade we totally reject Mrs. Bongi Gwala's utterances as hog-wash and not representative of eThekwini IFP Women. Mrs. Gwala fraudulently claims to be the Chairperson of the IFP Women's Brigade in eThekwini when she knows that there is no such structure currently existing in Durban. We know her instead as a former Provincial Secretary of the IFP Women's Brigade who failed dismally to the extent that she had to resign from that position. 

"The level of gullibility displayed by some sections of the media is suspicious to say the least; because we do not expect the media to just swallow claims from anyone who presents herself as holding a particular position without verifying her credentials, especially in the prevalent circumstances within the IFP. 

"It is also instructive that Bongi chose to use a language which is foreign to the IFP; that of Regions when there are no regions within our party. Was this a pointer to something we were not aware of? 

"Bongi must forthwith stop using the name of the IFP when she is spewing her personal venom." 
 

For Further Information:
Mrs. Ncamsile Nkwanyana
IFPWB Provincial Chairperson:
084 736 5183