By Lehlohonolo Lehana.
The Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party president Jacob Zuma has fired his secretary-general, Arthur Zwane, for the second time.
Zwane replaced former secretary-general Sihle Ngubane who was deployed to Parliament.
In a letter directed to Zwane, Zuma told him that he was fired because of misleading the party.
However, details on how Zwane misled the party remain unclear.
“I refer to the letter I wrote to you on June 28 in which I, Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma, as President of the uMkhonto Wesizwe Party (MKP) expressed my decision to you to relieve you from the position of Secretary General of the Party.
“I therefore reconfirm my earlier decision to you and thus expect you to cooperate fully with my decision and desist from continuing to serve in this capacity.
“Furthermore, owing to your conduct of misleading the party, I reserve the right to expel you from the Party with immediate effect,” the letter read.
Three weeks after being named the party’s secretary-general in June, Zwane resigned, citing an inability to handle the workload but Zuma, rejected his resignation.
Senior leaders, according to the letter, will convene to discuss the next steps and a smooth transition.
Before joining the MK party, Zwane was a prominent ANC member in Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal.
Zwane was charged and arrested in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, for shooting a security guard who tried to compel him to use hand sanitiser.