Senzo Tshabangu’s spokesperson Khaliphani Phugeni says the
self-styled interim secretary-general received sound advice to take full
control of the party.
“The legal opinion expressly deals with interpretation of
the party constitution. Some office bearers’ offices have expired by way of
operation of law (party constitution) and there is need for the party to
operate within the confines of the law and constitution. Anyone with a
different opinion is welcome to place it on record and it shall be
interrogated.
“According to the legal opinion, he [Tshabangu] is the only
one with a valid mandate to organise the party towards the next congress.”
CCC spokesperson Willias Madzimure said they would resist
Tshabangu’s attempt to hijack the party. “We want to assure our members and supporters that there is
no crisis within the CCC. We reject the delusional and self-serving legal opinions
from individuals outside our party structures.
Former CCC spokesperson Nqobizitha Mlilo admitted that the
party was in a constitutional crisis.
“We are sitting with a potential constitutional crisis,
which says that the party has failed to hold its congress as mandatorily
required by the party constitution,” Mlilo said.
“So what is needed now is to find a way of solving the
constitutional crisis that we have so that we return this party to
constitutionality, we return this party to legality.”
The party is imploding after Tshabangu received US$1,6
million from Treasury recently under the Political Parties (Finance) Act.
