The ANC’s push to dislodge the IFP in KwaZulu-Natal’s Nongoma Municipality has suffered a heavy blow, as National Freedom Party councillors in the municipality have resolved that they would no longer work with the governing party
from various hung municipalities, which the IFP had secured through its former partnership with the red berets.
Ndabandaba said the councillors were not concerned by the recent Pietermaritzburg High Court ruling that effectively installed him back as a mayor, alongside the EFF’s Sabelo Nkosi as deputy mayor and the ANC’s Babongile Sithole as Speaker, as he said the NFP councillors were now seeking a better working relationship with the IFP to ensure stability in the municipality instead of pushing to remove it.
“What we complained about, besides personal interests, was that we were not getting enough support from the IFP-led government in Nongoma. The ANC runs the provincial government and has departments and we asked it to assist us so that we can also shine in our wards, but they failed us. So, we have sat down now and decided on what will help us and those who voted for us,” he said.
The reason they are preoccupied with us and panic when we change direction is that they know that we are the biggest stronghold of the NFP and where we actually have ward councillors. They must fix the organisation and give proper direction. In a surprise move, Zulu has called for a council meeting on June 30, a move which has been slammed as illegal by opposition parties, as he had been replaced by Sithole.
When we look across the province, most individual NFP councillors are still respecting the agreement, but some are defiant because the IFP is going around buying people and there is nothing we can do about it, like the ANC.
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