League gives Mchunu ultimatum

IF PREMIER Senzo Mchunu wants to avoid being on a collision course with the ANC Youth League, he should within three days denounce his supporters for demanding a rerun of the provincial conference.

The youth league in the province said that if Mchunu failed to comply with its call, it would lay internal charges against him for being party to damaging the party’s reputation.

Addressing a media conference in Durban yesterday, youth league provincial chairman Thami Ngubane said senior ANC leaders in the province had acted behind the scenes in organising the march to demand the nullification of the conference. They had claimed there were many irregularities with the conference held in Pietermaritzburg at which Sihle Zikalala was elected provincial chairman.

Ngubane singled out Mchunu as the person who should distance himself from the march.

“If this is not done in three days, we will take it as if the march was sanctioned by him and his comrades,” he said.

The league’s provincial secretary, Thanduxolo Sabelo, launched a tirade against Mchunu.

“Any leader of the ANC would have seen it (the march) and would have stood up and said: ‘Not in my name.’”

He said the party’s provincial deputy chairman Willies Mchunu had set a good example by accepting defeat by Senzo Mchunu at the party’s provincial general council in 2013.

The Mchunus had contested the provincial chairmanship to replace Zweli Mkhize, who had been elected the party’s national treasurer-general the previous year.

“Comrade Willies stood and said clearly, ‘Not in my name, I don’t want these results contested. I accept the outcome.’

“This (Willies Mchunu) is a man who clearly does not put his interests first,” he said.

Senzo Mchunu’s office said he would no longer comment on ANC politics.