{"id":70069,"date":"2022-11-26T20:27:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T18:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/expelled-zapu-sg-strike-mkandla-castigates-partys-council-of-elders"},"modified":"2022-11-26T22:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T20:52:28","slug":"expelled-zapu-sg-strike-mkandla-castigates-partys-council-of-elders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/expelled-zapu-sg-strike-mkandla-castigates-partys-council-of-elders","title":{"rendered":"Expelled ZAPU SG Strike Mkandla Castigates Party\u2019s Council of Elders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Former ZAPU Secretary-General (SG), Strike Mkandla, has accused the party\u2019s Council of Elders of failing to act on his expulsion from the party and has demanded to know why he was expelled.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a media briefing on Friday, Mkandla said ZAPU should be preparing for the 2023 general elections instead of going after members considered a threat to the party president, Sibangilizwe Nkomo. Mkandla said:<\/p>\n<p>I have not communicated to anyone what I think about them even about the things they do and the manner in which they do them.<\/p>\n<p>When everyone is trying to think of the 2023 elections, these guys seem to be preoccupied with pointing the gun at their feet.<\/p>\n<p>How do you start attacking your own members before you even say what your strategy is in terms of national procedure barely six months before national elections?<\/p>\n<p>Instead of harnessing all of your forces, they are attacking some people who are there at their disposal. Well, I don\u2019t think I will be at the disposal of anybody now after all this.<\/p>\n<p>He accused the Council of Elders of dereliction of duty for allegedly failing to inform him about the reasons for his expulsion from the party. Said Mkandla:<\/p>\n<p>The Council of Elders didn\u2019t say anything for or against me and they didn\u2019t institute anything. This is a dereliction of duty by the Council of Elders leadership.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very serious and it\u2019s unprecedented in ZAPU that people can be charged and expelled and they don\u2019t say anything.<\/p>\n<p>It can be something if they said \u2018we will not tell you the reasons but we sat down and we have a dossier somewhere but we are not publicising.\u2019 As far as I know, they probably haven\u2019t got reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Mkandla was expelled from ZAPU alongside Matthew Sibanda (Matabeleland South Provincial Chairperson), Ernest Ndlovu (provincial secretary), Mildred Mkandla (Secretary for Education and Training), and Akim Nkala (National Executive Council member).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Former ZAPU Secretary-General (SG), Strike Mkandla, has accused the party\u2019s Council of Elders of failing to act on his expulsion from the party and has demanded to know why he was expelled. Addressing a media briefing on Friday, Mkandla said ZAPU should be preparing for the 2023 general elections instead of going [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":70068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[1493,2189,12928,6822,552,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-70069","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-policy","9":"tag-africa-press","10":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","11":"tag-council-of-elders","12":"tag-strike-mkandla","13":"tag-zapu","14":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Expelled ZAPU SG Strike Mkandla Castigates Party\u2019s Council of Elders - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former ZAPU Secretary-General (SG), Strike Mkandla, has accused the party\u2019s Council of Elders of failing to act on his e ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/expelled-zapu-sg-strike-mkandla-castigates-partys-council-of-elders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Expelled ZAPU SG Strike Mkandla Castigates Party\u2019s Council of Elders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former ZAPU Secretary-General (SG), Strike Mkandla, has accused the party\u2019s Council of Elders of failing to act on his e ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/expelled-zapu-sg-strike-mkandla-castigates-partys-council-of-elders\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-26T18:27:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-26T20:52:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669481852.74.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"470\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/expelled-zapu-sg-strike-mkandla-castigates-partys-council-of-elders\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/expelled-zapu-sg-strike-mkandla-castigates-partys-council-of-elders\",\"name\":\"Expelled ZAPU SG Strike Mkandla Castigates Party\u2019s Council of Elders - 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