MTHWAKAZI Liberation Front (MLF) has dismissed State media reports that Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini will visit Gwanda this month end.
BY SILAS NKALA
MLF senior official Crispen Nyoni yesterday said the reports were false.
Nyoni said if the Zulu King was to visit Zimbabwe as claimed, Albert Zwelibanzi Khumalo Gumede would have announced and co-ordinated the trip.
State media reports last week stated that Zwelithini would visit Zimbabwe at the invitation of a wealthy businessman, identified as Justice Maphosa.
“If the King were to visit Zimbabwe, it would be our chief, Albert Zwelibanzi Gumede, who would tell the public if such a visit would take place,” Nyoini said.
“Such circumstances require a strict protocol that takes place prior to the visit. That protocol involves our chief Albert Zwelibanzi Albert Gumede and is not done through newspapers and other media.”
He said the story that Zwelithini was to attend the official opening of a 1 000-seater Brethren in Christ Church building was also a smokescreen as was the supposedly wedding ceremony.
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Prince Mbonisi Zulu of Zululand and the king’s aide, Nhlamvuyelanga Sithole, also dismissed the reports as false.
Chief Gumede was installed by a group of Zimbabweans from Matabeleland, based in South Africa as paramount chief of the controversial secessionist “Mthwakazi Republic” in March 2014.
His installation sparked a furore back home as most of the traditional leaders in Matabeleland and the Khumalos disputed the move and dismissed it as a non-event.
