Though AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Zwelibanzi Dalindyebo appeared side-by-side with ANC provincial and regional leaders wearing ANC colours on Friday, he has not dumped the EFF.
AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Zwelibanzi Dalindyebo is indeed the biological father of Prince Azenathi Zanelizwe Dalindyebo, his firstborn son, according to paternity test results revealed on Wednesday.
The winners of Saturday’s inaugural Eastern Cape Mandela Marathon from Mandela’s burial site in Qunu to his birthplace at Mvezo will take home R50,000, while the prize for the winner of the 10km race will be R8,000.
The Mthatha high court has found that AbaThembu King Buyelekhaya Zwelibanzi Dalindyebo has no authority to appoint and remove any traditional leader in his kingdom. Mthatha high court judge Philip Zilwa found the king’s efforts to remove one of his former trusted lieutenants and close relative, Nkosi Mfundiso Mabalengwe Mtirara, as senior traditional leader and acting head of Matyenengqina traditional council, and to replace him with his current right-hand man, Prince BaThembu Babalo Papu, wa.