The secretary-general slammed Dalindyebo for “betraying” the solidarity South Africa has always had towards the people of Israel. Mbalula said it was more embarrassing that with the liberation struggle credentials, like Dalindyebo, whose late father, King Sabata Dalindyebo, was also a respected liberation struggle fighter, can fall off so badly from political consciousness. Not from someone from an esteemed royal family with serious liberation struggle credentials. Worse still, charged Mbalula, Dalindyebo fought passionately against the oppression of the native people of South Africa during apartheid. And obviously what the king (Dalindyebo) did was the betrayal of our solidarity with the Palestinians,” said Mbalula.