LUBOMBO RA MEETS CHIEFS, MPS MINUS GAWUZELA

SITEKI – Chiefs and Members of Parliaments (MPs) together with Lubombo Regional Administrator (RA) Themba Msibi on Tuesday held a meeting at the RA’s offices.

However, there was a notable absentee who happened to be Siphofaneni MP Mduduzi ‘Gawuzela’ Simelane. The media was barred from being part of the meeting’s agenda. Last month, the meeting was indefinitely postponed by the RA following the demise of Othandweni Umphakatsi Chief Maphilingo Shongwe. The RA together with chiefs under this region had summoned Simelane subsequent to his stance of openly being amongst the leaders of the call for the election of a prime minister (PM) in Parliament.
Lubombo RA, Msibi could not be reached for comment as his cellphone rang unanswered when called yesterday.

This publication wanted to ascertain the agenda of the meeting and why Simelane was not part of it. However, Regional Secretary (RS), Jane Mkhonta confirmed the meeting, stating that it was a routine meeting where chiefs and MPs met to discuss issues that bother the region. “There was nothing serious that was discussed. I can only confirm that there was a meeting to that effect,” she evasively said. Chairperson of the Lubombo MPs forum, Dvokodvweni MP Mduduzi Magagula was a bit coy to divulge the agenda of the meeting. “I can confirm that there was a meeting between chiefs and MPs in the presence of the RA. But I left early as I was not ok and I even submitted my sick-sheet,” he diplomatically said.

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Called to question his absence in the meeting, Siphofaneni MP, Simelane said he saw the notification informing them to attend the meeting after being uploaded to their Whatsapp group but he did not attend because he was busy. “I was busy and couldn’t attend. I saw the notification informing us about the meeting on our Whatsapp group but had to attend to other pressing issues which needed my attention,” he said. Malindza Umphakatsi Chief Ndlondlo Tsabedze asked not to comment about the meeting. The chief stated he has not been given a mandate to do so. “It was a meeting between chiefs and MPs and I cannot comment about the issues discussed. Yes, we did met but I am not mandated to talk about its agenda,” he said. Meanwhile, chiefs and the RA had summoned Siphofaneni MP, Simelane into a meeting which was prompted by his purported stance in supporting the issue of an elected PM. The postponement of the meeting took place during the midst of the countrywide petitions delivery campaigns by the youth to their respective constituencies’ MPs.

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