MKP leader denies threatening to kill Adv Mkhwebane

It's a setup, protests provincial secretary

- By Tshwarelo eseng Mogakane

Suspended MK Party provincial secretary in Mpumalanga, Abednego Mkhatshwa, has denied claims that he wants his boss Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane dead, insisting his words were taken literally when he meant something else.

The unfolding ugly feud has reignited old divisions within the MKP’s Mpumalanga structures, which had been struggling to find unity since the removal of former provincial leader Mary Phadi.

Mkhwebane and Mkhatshwa worked together to have Phadi removed, but now appear to have fallen out.

Speaking to Sunday World, Mkhatshwa said he was deliberately entrapped into saying things that were later recorded and twisted out of context.

He said the conversation happened after attending an “after-tears” for their late member, Sipho Johannes Vilakazi, who was buried in Sakhile township, Standerton, on October 4.

“You know how after-tears can be. It was very late, and Mkhwebane’s people insisted that we be driven to Bronkhorstspruit for a sleepover. It was already in the early hours of the next day. We agreed, not knowing it was a trap,” he said.