Shivambu visited Shepherd Bushiri’s Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church over the Easter weekend, which drew widespread criticism for appearing to embolden those who believe they can evade accountability.
A month after his controversial visit to fugitive pastor Shepherd Bushiri’s church in Malawi, uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party Secretary-General Floyd Shivambu says the trip to Malawi was approved by party president Jacob Zuma, despite the party denouncing the visit to Bushiri as having been taken on Shivambu’s own accord and not sanctioned by MK leadership.
Shivambu visited Bushiri’s Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) church over the Easter weekend in April, a move that drew widespread criticism for appearing to embolden those who believe they can evade accountability.
On Wednesday, 28 May, the SABC’s political editor, Mzwandile Mbeje, asked Shivambu why he had visited a fugitive wanted by the South African authorities. Shivambu replied that on 21 March, after he and Zuma attended the inauguration of Namibian President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, “we were sitting with former president Joyce Banda of Malawi. And we were also sitting with the incumbent Deputy President, Michael Usi of Malawi … and President Zuma said that we must make follow-up on the discussions that were raised.”
