MPs want an urgent meeting with King MisuZulu over Ingonyama Trust board
This follows the king’s suspension of Ingonyama Trust board members and the dismissal of senior executives, a move the minister says was irregular.
FILE: Zulu King Misuzulu at Battle of Isandlwana commemoration in Nquthu, KwaZulu-Natal on 21 January 2023. Picture: Eyewitness News/Jacques Nelles
CAPE TOWN - Members of Parliament (MPs) urgently want to meet with AmaZulu King MisuZulu KaZwelithini to resolve governance challenges at the Ingonyama Trust board.
Members of the Land Reform and Rural Development Committee have also expressed their unhappiness after their planned oversight visit to the king was postponed last week.
This follows the king’s suspension of Ingonyama Trust board members and the dismissal of senior executives, a move the minister says was irregular.
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Members of the committee at their last meeting called the developments at the Ingonyama Trust a crisis situation which needed urgent attention.
They had initially planned to meet King MisuZulu a week ago, but that decision was postponed at the 11th hour.
But chairperson Albert Mncwango said the meeting must go ahead.
"All we were going to do and we are still going to do that is to actually find out and give the king an ear of exactly what’s going on."
Committee member Mlindi Nhanha expressed his displeasure at the postponement, saying they don’t want to hold the king accountable.
"We never wanted to hold the king accountable. We wanted to visit the king to hear his side of the story."
The committee resolved to meet the king and the trust’s board after next week’s State of the Nation Address.