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Kennedy and Queen Mother attacked by royal family
Division in Tshivhase royal family? illegitimate structure. “They subsequently embarked on disregarding The Tshivhase dynasty, once the chief conand defying the Tshivhase royal family. During tender for the Vhavenda throne, is in the news these acts of defiance, Tshivhase directly or indionce again. The once closely knit family is now rectly acted and continued to act in stark contrast showing signs of cracks. to the Tshivhase royal family and its traditions In the centre of the division are the present and customs. He overtly displayed despotic incumbent and senior traditional leader, Mailau- tendencies by going on and acting in contempt sumbwa Kennedy Tshivhase, and the queen of court and with total disregard to government mother, Madala Virginia Tshivhase. The two are circulars, policies, procedures and directives,” accused by the royal family of taking unilathe says. Lesley Tshivhase says the legitimate eral decisions without first consulting the royal royal family council was replaced by an ad hoc family. In a memo addressed to Queen Mother committee, handpicked by Kennedy Tshivhase, Virginia Tshivhase and Mailausumbwa Kennedy of cronies, junior family members and non-royal Tshivhase, the royal family says it is shocked people. by developments in the royal family, where He contends that, as its first task, the commitdecisions are taken without the knowledge of tee replaced Mr ME Tshivhase as deputy senior the family elders. Representing the royal family, traditional leader by appointing Queen mother Lesley Tshivhase says they have noted as a fam- Virginia Madala Tshivhase (Vhakoma), who is ily that the two have usurped authority and are not of the Tshivhase royal blood. “One can see acting outside their powers. that something is wrong here. How can the VhaHe says they have embarked on a mission to koma be a deputy senior traditional leader, when reorganise traditional and administrative systems she is not a descendent of any of the Tshivhase and structures within the Tshivhase traditional royal family tree? Such a nomination and apauthority in a questionable manner which is also pointment is against the Tshivhase royal family destabilising the community. According to him tradition and customs,” he said. (Lesley), the two had at first sought approval He says a letter to the premier, which recomfrom the royal family and when they could not mended the recognition of the queen mother as get the nod, they decided to dissolve the legitideputy senior traditional leader, was fraudulent mate royal family council and replaced it with an as it was authored after the “dissolution” of the By Elmon Tshikhudo
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Mailausumbwa Kennedy Tshivhase.
legitimate royal family council. “The nomination, appointment and communicating of the appointment to the premier was in fact done unilaterally and without consultation with the royal family by Kennedy Tshivhase,” says Lesley Tshivhase. - Continues on p2.
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