As the EFF terminated AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo’s membership following his visit to Israel, two party members whom the king had appointed to senior positions in his office in May resigned, citing political differences. Ncedo Kolanisi resigned as premier-general of the AbaThembu Royal Kingdom and former EFF MP Piaba Madokwe, resigned as public relations and media officer. Dalindyebo and the head of the Twelve Apostles Church in Christ, Chief Apostle Caesar Nongqunga, were part of a delegation hosted by that country’s ministry of foreign affairs.
The delegation met Israel’s foreign minister, Gideon Sa’ar, in Jerusalem. The group included Dalindyebo’s children, Princess Ntando and Prince Sinethemba, and several AbaThembu royals. It also included the king’s uncle, Nkosi Thanduxolo Mtirara, Prince Mandla Ngonyama, AmaXhosa Prince Abongile Ngozi, former Ngcobo mayor Lamla Jiyose, Richard King, Ndivhuwo Matsila, Dr Troy Dean Meyers, Mandile Sivuyile Christopher Steto and Fundiswa Babalwa Zote.
In August, an Israeli delegation led by the country’s head of digital diplomacy, David Saranga, visited Dalindyebo in his Nkululekweni private residence in Mthatha, to provide humanitarian relief to the victims of the recent floods in Mthatha. They pledged ongoing aid, beginning with a donation of $10,000 (R168,575), to assist families still displaced after the disaster. In his resignation letter, dated December 5, Kolanisi said: “I accepted this role because I believed we shared a commitment to integrity, justice and principled leadership.
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“That trust was broken in August, when the kingdom welcomed representatives from Israel, under the guise of a charity initiative for Mthatha flood victims. “It quickly became evident that the visit was not about humanitarian relief but political alignment.
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