Among conditions for a coalition, the EFF has demanded being handed a municipality to govern, in exchange for helping any party
The EFF has also demanded the amendment of the constitution within six months to allow for eand the creation of a state bank within 12 months – which the ANC is unable to implement. Ruling out any partnership with the ANC, IFP president Velenkosini Hlabisa yesterday said his party would find it hard to enter into a coalition government with the ANC – a party he said had leaders “facing so much in the courts of law, corruption and unethical behaviour”.
It retained its strongholds in the Zululand district and the local councils it governed, including the big five of Hlabisa, Ulundi, Nkandla, Msinga and Nquthu. The IFP gained most seats in two hung municipalities of Mthonjaneni near Richards Bay and in Mtubatuba in the north of KwaZulu-Natal. Asked about the IFP strategy which led to the party humiliating the ANC in the polls in KZN, Hlabisa said: “This was neither an overnight work, a miracle nor manna falling to our surprise.
“He described long hard work by the party from 2011 onwards, putting together a “package”… three elections in one – 2019, 2021 and 2024. “We knew we were going to remove the DA as the official opposition in KwaZulu-Natal,” he said. “And we did it – targeting 2021. We have always been saying that we would be taking more municipalities from the ANC.”
Hlabisa added: “Definitely in 2024, we are taking over the province of KwaZulu-Natal.” On coalitions, Hlabisa said: “We are going to enter into a coalition guided by two principles: a party that promotes non-racialism and not getting involved with a party that is clouded by corruption – compromising our stance against corruption. “With regards to the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal, we are not going to get involved with them.
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