South Africa: Inkatha Says It Will Form KZN Govt of Provincial Unity With ANC, DA and NFP

12 June 2024
Daily Maverick (Johannesburg)
analysis By Chris Makhaye

The proposed government of provincial unity will put forward the IFP's Thami Ntuli as premier, shutting out Jacob Zuma's MK party.

KwaZulu-Natal is likely to form a government consisting of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP), the African National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the National Freedom Party (NFP).

This was said by the IFP during a press conference in Durban on Wednesday evening.

KZN emerged from the post-29 May general elections period with a unique political situation after the uMkhonto Wesizwe (MK) party unexpectedly won 45% of the vote, which gave it 37 seats in the 80-seat KZN legislature. The IFP has the second-highest number of seats, 15, followed by the ANC with 14 and the DA with 11. The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) won two seats and the National Freedom Party (NFP) one.

IFP leader Velenkosini Hlabisa told a media briefing on Wednesday evening that the party had engaged with other parties to form a government of national unity nationally and a government of provincial unity in KwaZulu-Natal.

Hlabisa said that after talks with the ANC and DA, there was an agreement that IFP KZN provincial leader Thami Ntuli would lead the provincial government.

Hlabisa told the media briefing that the MK party had failed to attend a pre-arranged meeting on Monday. The IFP delegation had waited at...

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