Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has dismissed as false a news report that he had fallen out with party secretary general Musa Zondi.
The report, in KwaZulu-Natal’s Zulu-language Ilanga newspaper, also said Buthelezi suspended Zondi at the weekend.
”Both claims are false,” Buthelezi said in a statement on Tuesday. ”I expect that these rumours have been fuelled by elements who wish to spread disinformation about the IFP.”
Zondi said he has not been suspended and the report was ”a non-story”.
Asked about his relationship with Buthelezi, he said it is ”not a problem at all”.
He said the report was a figment of the reporter’s own imagination. — Sapa