Responding to Prince Mbonisi Zulu’s application to halt the coronation of Misuzulu KaZwelithini as the next king of the Zulu nation, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi lynched the senior prince, saying he is clutching at straws to an extent that he confuses court jurisdictions.
Buthelezi alleged that the prince’s application was trying to pre-empt the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) which was yet to hear the appeal over Judge Isaac Madondo’s (of the Pietermaritzburg High Court) ruling, which comprehensively dismissed an almost similar application this year – ruled that Prince Mbonisi has no “locus standi”.
All this is contained in 237 pages of papers Buthelezi filed in response to the Prince who has dashed to the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria to stop the coronation and to have the coronation committee disbanded – among many orders he is seeking.
“The relief in paragraph 4.1 in the notice of motion in these proceedings (seeking declaratory relief pendente lite that the first respondent (King Misuzulu) is not to be regarded as the king) is nonsensical and incompetent relief.
“It is incompetent because the president (Cyril Ramaphosa) has already recognised the first respondent as the king (and did so on March 16, 2022, nearly four months. Moreover, such declaratory relief would effectively pre-empt the decision in the review court (the appeal in the SCA),” Buthelezi stated in his affidavit and other portfolios of evidence meant to the court.
King Misuzulu has filed a supporting affidavit where he told the court that the allegations that he committed incest, he abuses drugs and alcohol and loses his composure after taking one too many, are meant to tarnish his image and they are patently false. Buthelezi dismissed Prince Mbonisi’s claims that he was using the Zulu monarch to boost the electoral fortunes of the IFP.
He stressed that the IFP does not need the royal family to conquer and explained the erroneous use of King Misuzulu’s photo in a poster of the IFP last year, just days before the local government elections where it swept the floor and ousted the ANC in several municipalities. He said it was an error by a junior staff member of the party (IFP) and it was corrected as soon as it was picked up.
Source: IOL
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