MKMVA outraged by the deliberately false reporting of eNCA
5 March 2018
The Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Veterans Association (MKMVA) held a media conference yesterday during which we issued a statement reflecting the deliberations of the MKMVA NEC which took place on the 3rd and 4th of March 2018.
The MKMVA statement explicitly stated that MKMVA accepts the changes that President Cyril Ramaphosa made to the National Executive (popularly know as the Cabinet), and reiterated that we accept that it is President Ramaphosa's prerogative to decide on the composition of his Cabinet.
During the media conference the President of MKMVA, comrade Kebby Maphatsoe, reiterated this position without expressing any reservation whatsoever. No one of MKMVA said as much as a word that we are 'unhappy' with the changes that President Ramaphosa made to the National Executive.
Yet, despite not having done so, and the media conference having been recorded on camera by the eNCA news team that covered the event, eNCA reported erroneously on their news website that MKMVA said that we are 'unhappy' with the redeployment of comrade Des van Rooyen, and that he is no longer a member of the National Executive. It needs to be reiterated that no-one from MKMVA present at the media conference had said anything to that effect. Other media such as the The New Age had no difficulty to report correctly what MKMVA said at the media conference.