‘ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE’ MPS NOT BACKING DOWN

MBABANE – Sell-outs, regime changers or whatever names they are being called, the three MPs who have been labelled as ‘advocates for change’ are not backing down.
In fact, they have gone to the extent of labelling their colleagues as ‘shallow thinkers’.

The trio are Hosea MP Mduduzi Bacede Mabuza, Siphofaneni MP Mduduzi ‘Gawuzela’ Simelane and Ngwempisi MP Mthandeni Dube. Interviewed yesterday, MP Mabuza said when they were called to Parliament on Tueday by the Speaker, Petros Mavimbela, for the Acting Prime Minister, Themba Masuku’s, ministerial statement, they did not know the full scale, that the sitting would be about attacking them. “I knew that it would be government sending condolences to Thabani Nkomonye’s family and maybe updating the legislators about the inquest,” he said. The MP said they had no opportunity to respond to their comments on Tuesday, especially because none of the MPs had called out their names.

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He said, however, since it was now in the public domain that they were the trio being discussed, they felt that there was nothing wrong with speaking outside the chamber. MP Mabuza said some of the MPs were ‘shallow thinkers’. “They think shallow if they believe that they are MPs when only in the House of Assembly and you can only talk when you are there,” said MP Mabuza. The Hosea MP said the legislators were shallow thinkers if they thought they believed they could not speak when they were around people outside of Parliament. “That is their small thinking which I think it is not politically correct or right (sic),” said MP Mabuza.

He said he did not think the acting PM’s statement would then find fault in who was right or wrong and give direction, instead of how far the inquest had gone. He said he thought the MPs were just debating in the House and not directing their submissions to anyone. However, it was clear that it was an attack on them. “We chose to keep quiet because we know how Parliament operates where they use political tricks and I saw that at play on Tuesday,” he said. He said even with the order in which the speakers were called to make their submissions, it was clear that they had been targeted, given his experience in the House.

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