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MAXWELL STEPS DOWN AS SWAYOCO LEADER

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MBABANE – Maxwell Dlamini has resigned as Secretary General of PUDEMO’s youth wing SWAYOCO.


“I herby tender my resignation as the secretary general of SWAYOCO with immediate effect. I believe that the decision is in the best interest of the movement. I have been privileged to have been elected and mandated to lead the biggest and oldest youth movement in the country,” he wrote to the proscribed party members.


It has been revealed that the letter written by Dlamini on February 21, 2017 was not the first instance where he indicated he wanted out of the hectic office of the PUDEMO youth league.
Last year, a few months after his release from prison, Dlamini posted on Facebook that he was now stepping down from his position as secretary general so that he could concentrate on his academic life as well as improve his employment prospects.


 His initial resignation was not accepted by the organisation and he was forced to remain in office.
People’s United Democratic Movement (PUDEMO) Second Vice Deputy Secretary General Mphandlana Shongwe, when questioned on the matter, revealed that they were aware as an organisation that Dlamini wanted to resign.
“We advised him that he should not have announced his resignation on social media but should have used the relevant structures to resign and as such refused to accept it,” said Shongwe.
In the letter, Dlamini mentioned that he had, as the Secretary General of SWAYOCO, led campaigns against elections, which, “deprived our people their right to elect their own government.”


“In my 10 years as a leader of SWAYOCO and the movement as a whole I have spent four of those years in prison, shared a cell with comrade Bheki Dlamini, Zonkhe Dlamini and Roland Rudd at Sidvwashini Correctional Services, have shared a police van, shackles and cuffs and a cell with PUDEMO’s president Mario Masuku in pursuit of our historical mission of liberation against the government,” read parts of the letter.


“I have been kept together with our revolutionary friend Amos Mbedzi at Matsapha Maximum Prison in furtherance of our revolution. Such has been an honour and indeed privilege to suffer among cadres of our movement for our people and liberation.”
Dlamini reminded his leaders that he had served the movement with love and humility to the best of his capabilities without expecting anything in return.


He said his sacrifices, commitment and courage in the face of total brutality and adversities were inspired by love for justice, freedom and prosperity for the country.
He expressed gratitude to those who believed and supported him at all levels while a leader of the youth league. “I remain a member, activist and volunteer of our glorious movement and shall serve the movement in other different levels of our struggle in pursuit of our noble cause.”

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