In what could be an inadvertent subversion of democracy of major proportions, the wishes of thousands, if not millions, of voters in KwaZulu-Natal will count for nothing on August 3 because the Independent Electoral Commission has disqualified the National Freedom Party for missing the deadline to pay its registration fee. The scale of this mishap is unimaginable. By CYRIL MADLALA.
Only a week ago the NFP turned the conservative town of Vryheid, in northern KwaZulu-Natal, into a distinctive sea of orange T-shirts, vehicles and other party paraphernalia to mark the grand re-emergence in public of Zanele KaMagwaza-Msibi.
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