Land Party Accepts The Resignation of Loyiso Nkohla With Relief

To: All media

From: Land Party National Spokesperson, Mandy Owens

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Date: 2019/05/23

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The Land Party has received media reports about the resignation of Loyiso Nkohla, although a formal resignation letter had not formally been sent to the organisation at the time this information went to the press. We, however, accept his resignation and release him from the Party with great relief.

Tabled on our agenda for the Land Party Central Committee this weekend was a discussion around numerous allegations against Nkohla and a vote was going to be taken to remove him from the organisation.

Among the allegations are sexual harassment against one of our lesbian members, threats of violence and defamation of character against the Chief Leader as well as the white and Cape Malay members of the organisation, theft, fraud, self-promotion and populism over the needs of the poor, illegally receiving funds from Ace Magashule, working with Alan Winde from the DA, fraudulently taking and keeping funds from donors for personal use in the name of the Party without disclosing the information to the Party, causing factions and division in the Party, failure to deliver votes or any value to the Party from his campaign as Premier Candidate, and overall sabotage of the Party for his own selfish gains. The manner in which he joined the Land Party is also under question, as he was originally sent by Patricia De Lille’s GOOD Party to recruit the Land Party Chief Leader to GOOD. The Chief Leader declined as he had been given a mandate by his community to run his own political party that Nkohla was not aware of at that time. We now believe that Nkohla saw an opportunity to use the Land Party simply to promote his own name as he jumps from one political platform to the next.

Evidence relating to these allegations was to be presented and investigated at the Central Committee meeting this weekend in order to mitigate his expulsion. Nkohla received this information from a member of the Land Party yesterday and therefore tendered his resignation in the media so as to avoid being expelled and having the alleged charges against him being exposed.

The Land Party will still receive and investigate the evidence this weekend in order to take legal action against Nkohla. The spurious and deceitful claims he is making in the media against the Chief Leader will also be dealt with decisively as there is no truth to them and amounts to nothing more than the actions of a wounded, corrupt and bitter man looking for revenge. The only true statement is about the court case where the Chief Leader is charged with incitement of violence related to the Zwelihle uprising in Hermanus, for which he spent three months in jail for standing up for his community. This is public knowledge and we are confident that the charges will soon be dropped.

The Land Party will not allow populists and power-mongers to use poor people for their own selfish agendas, and we hope that this is the end of Nkohla’s political career and shamelessly false self-promotion as an “activist” for poor people. We are glad to be cleansing the Party of all such individuals who are exposing themselves now after not receiving positions of power.

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