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Afrika Mayibuye Movement president Floyd Shivambu. Established only a few months ago, the party has already gone through several leadership resignations.
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- Floyd Shivambu’s party, Afrika Mayibuye Movement, has been hit by several senior resignations.
- Two deputy secretaries-general have resigned, one deputy president was fired, and another has resigned since the party was formed in September.
- However, Afrika Mayibuye Movement has claimed that those who have resigned anticipated the change in leadership that was going to remove them from leadership positions.
Just two months after its formation, Floyd Shivambu’s Afrika Mayibuye Movement is grappling with upheaval as the party’s two deputy secretaries-general have become the latest senior leaders to resign.
Luther Lebelo and Gabisile Shongwe’s resignations come on the heels of the resignation of first deputy president Robert Nwendo, who resigned on 25 November, after the party fired Nolubabalo Mcinga as its other deputy president.
Shongwe resigned on 28 November, “effective immediately”, while Lebelo also resigned with “immediate effect”, not only as the deputy secretary-general but from the party as well.
Following the resignations, the party announced on Saturday that its national officials had met over two days “to confront the challenges of our time with clarity and courage”.
RECONFIGURATION OF MAYIBUYE National Officials: In what the National Officials described as “ Separation of Wheat from Chaff”, the National Officials resolved to reconfigure the composition of the National Officials.
This reconfiguration signifies no mere administrative… https://t.co/p7Ip3L3dhu
The party, in a statement shared on X, said it was going through a moment it described as “separating the wheat from the chaff” and that its national leadership had since taken “decisive steps” to reconfigure its national structure.
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“This reconfiguration signifies no mere administrative adjustment; it avows the movement’s unbreakable solidarity. It affirms readiness to escalate the struggle for total freedom and emancipation now, land restitution, and social justice now,” said the party’s leadership in a statement.
It announced a reconfigured national leadership of 14 people, led by Shivambu as president, three deputy presidents, a secretary-general with two deputies, a national chairperson and a deputy, a national organiser and a deputy, a treasurer-general, a fundraiser-general, as well as a chaplain-general. The chaplain-general is rape-accused church leader Bafana Zondo.
“These new leadership appointments and reconfiguration replace and remove completely the two ex-deputy presidents and two ex-deputy secretaries-general, who are no longer occupying any leadership roles in the organisation.”
The statement added:
Some of these removed comrades have opportunistically resigned from their positions and membership, on the verge of long-overdue replacement.
Lebelo and Shongwe have been replaced by Mzwandile Goge, who is the first deputy secretary-general, and Nosipho Makamba, the second deputy secretary-general.
Thato wa Magogodi and Nomsa Ka-Mashobane Sibisi have replaced Mcinga and Nwendo.
News24 reported this week that the party has also had to postpone its fundraising event, where suitors would have had to pay R2 million to sit next to Shivambu.
