Culture of misinformation led to MK Party barring public reps from speaking directly to Zuma - Shivambu

JOHANNESBURG - The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party said that a culture of misinformation led to it preventing its public representatives from speaking directly to its leader, Jacob Zuma.

The party recently amended its constitution to state public representatives must exhaust all internal organisation processes before raising any matter with Zuma.

Speaking at a media briefing on Monday, MK Party Secretary-General Floyd Shivambu said it was important that the organisation had a clear power structure.

He said that issues of governance must be raised in proper structures so that they were recorded.

"The culture or sub-culture, sometimes it’s done with good intentions but sometimes it’s also done with bad intentions where people say we are just going to visit the president, to say thank you and just introduce ourselves, but when they are there, they are talking about internal and political dynamics of uMkhonto weSizwe and the leadership they are complaining or talking about is not immediately there."