MEC the new ambassador in Cuba

Date: 12 December 2008 By: Peter Muthambi

Piitso’s appointment was announced during a media briefing held in Polokwane last Friday.

It is rumoured that Piitso was given the ambassadorship as a way of preventing him from moving to COPE as organiser for the Sikhukhune area, from whence he hails.

Members of COPE who spoke to Mirror anonymously this week indicated that it is very clear that Piitso’s appointment was politically motivated and a way of preventing him to join COPE, following his suspension by the SA Communist Party after he publicly insisted that an SACP leader had at some point been a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).  

Meanwhile, it was also outlined that Piitso’s deployment will pave the way for the chairperson of the ANC in Limpopo, Mr Cassell Mathale, to join the Limpopo Legislature. This comes after the provincial executive committee (PEC) of the ANC in Limpopo had been pressuring Moloto to appoint Mathale in his cabinet.

It was further announced during the briefing that Piitso’s appointment was effective from December 1.

Meanwhile, the chairperson of the ANC in Limpopo, Mr Cassell Mathale, said that Pitso was not redeployed to persuade him not to join COPE. “There is no way that we can prevent a person to join a political party of his choice. He has the right to change to the political party of his choice,” he said.

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Peter Muthambi

Peter Muthambi graduated from the University of Venda with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Studies. He started writing stories for Limpopo Mirror as well as national papers in 2006. He loves investigative journalism and is also a very keen photographer.