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The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) believes it can retain power in all but “one or two” of the 29 KwaZulu-Natal municipalities under its control despite the collapse of its coalition agreement with the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
On Sunday, EFF president Julius Malema announced that his party had instructed EFF deputy mayors in eight hung KwaZulu-Natal councils to resign with immediate effect and that the co-governance agreement between the two parties was over.
The resignations could cost the IFP control of the uMhlathuze, Dannhauser, Mtubatuba, Nongoma and Maphumulo local councils, as well as the uThukela, Zululand and Amajuba district municipalities, all of which it took with the support of the EFF after November 2021 local government elections.
The party has reversed the electoral losses it sustained in 2011 in subsequent local and provincial elections, taking back control of 26 municipalities — some of them hung — as well as clawing back provincial votes in the 2019 poll.
Guest on the line: IFP president- Velenkosini Hlabisa
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By SAfmThe Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) believes it can retain power in all but “one or two” of the 29 KwaZulu-Natal municipalities under its control despite the collapse of its coalition agreement with the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
On Sunday, EFF president Julius Malema announced that his party had instructed EFF deputy mayors in eight hung KwaZulu-Natal councils to resign with immediate effect and that the co-governance agreement between the two parties was over.
The resignations could cost the IFP control of the uMhlathuze, Dannhauser, Mtubatuba, Nongoma and Maphumulo local councils, as well as the uThukela, Zululand and Amajuba district municipalities, all of which it took with the support of the EFF after November 2021 local government elections.
The party has reversed the electoral losses it sustained in 2011 in subsequent local and provincial elections, taking back control of 26 municipalities — some of them hung — as well as clawing back provincial votes in the 2019 poll.
Guest on the line: IFP president- Velenkosini Hlabisa