{"id":965277,"date":"2024-07-11T10:09:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T10:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=965277"},"modified":"2024-07-11T10:09:46","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T10:09:46","slug":"zuma-rejects-mk-secretary-generals-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/zuma-rejects-mk-secretary-generals-resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Zuma rejects MK Secretary General&#8217;s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party&#8217;s Secretary-General Arthur Zwane has returned to office with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>This, after the party leader, Jacob Zuma rejected his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Zwane handed in his letter of resignation on July 1, citing a large workload and his intention to pursue personal ventures.<\/p>\n<p>The MK Party attributes one of the reasons for the rejection of Zwane&#8217;s resignation letter, to the party&#8217;s founding strategic workshop, aimed at strengthening its organisational structures for future elections.<\/p>\n<p>Sifiso Maseko, who occupied the role of Secretary-General during Zwane&#8217;s departure, has moved to champion the party&#8217;s Human Resources sector.<\/p>\n<p>The party says given the current situation under the ANC-DA coalition, it wants to uphold principles of leadership and unity, citing continuing in their ranks as more important than ever.<\/p>\n<p>The MK says it has vowed to build a strong and resilient party.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The MK Party wishes to address recent developments concerning the resignation of our Secretary General, Comrade Arthur Zwane.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving and carefully considering Comrade Zwane&#8217;s resignation letter dated July 1, 2024, in which he cited an excessive workload from MKP and a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GJxlzJu6GC\">pic.twitter.com\/GJxlzJu6GC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 uMkhonto WeSizwe Party (@MkhontoweSizwex) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MkhontoweSizwex\/status\/1811287206620700913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MK Secretary-General, Arthur Zwane, returns to office with immediate effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":965278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1098,1099,1100,1101],"class_list":["post-965277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-party-leader","tag-rejected","tag-secretary-general-umkhonto-we-sizwe-resignation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/965278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}