A top Pietermaritzburg High Court judge on Friday urged two feuding Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) factions to "find peace".
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/ 22 October 2010
Zanele Magwaza-Msibi seems set to go the way of other party dissenters.
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/ 22 October 2010
Not all offenders meet the "political crimes" requirement of the presidential dispensation.
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/ 24 September 2010
President Jacob Zuma said on Friday that South Africans should draw a lesson from the World Cup with regards to national unity.
The 26 by-elections that took place on Wednesday this week have confirmed the declining fortunes of Cope and the IFP.
The IFP on Sunday voted to postpone its general conference until a disciplinary inquiry was conducted into national chairperson Zanele Magwaza-Msibi.
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/ 13 February 2010
IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Saturday rebuked dissenters within his party and called for unity ahead of the local government elections.
The IFP has been divided by a succession battle to replace Buthelezi, made more acute by the party’s poor showing in last year’s national general election.
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/ 15 October 2009
The IFP and the ANC each won three wards in by-elections in KwaZulu-Natal, the Independent Electoral Commission said on Thursday.
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/ 15 September 2009
Elements in the IFP and its youth brigade see the postponement of the national elective conference as a delaying tactic.
A photographer and five IFP Youth Brigade members were wounded when police fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters in Durban on Monday.
The Constitutional Court will rule on Tuesday on whether 384 prisoners are entitled to apply for political pardons.
The opposition on Wednesday rejected attempts by President Jacob Zuma to defuse the row over his nomination of Judge Sandile Ngcobo as chief justice.
The grandson of Mangosuthu Buthelezi was abducted last week, the IFP leader said in his online letter on Thursday.
The IFP on Monday rejected a call by ANC president Jacob Zuma for the two parties to merge.
The IFP on Friday tabled a motion in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature to suspend its speaker pending the outcome of her corruption trial.
IFP members are being targeted for assassination in a ”sinister plan”, the IFP said on Thursday following an attack on a party councillor.
Zweli Mkhize said on Monday he and President Jacob Zuma did not influence traditional leaders who voted against IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
Opposition leaders were quick to dismiss President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation address in Parliament on Wednesday as ”a wish list”.
Inside fighting between two IFP movements resulted in the disruption of a media conference on Wednesday with members hurling insults at each other.
The Inkatha Freedom Party’s student wing Sadesmo on Wednesday rejected reports of calls for a change in the party’s leadership.
Tensions appear to be rising within the party following its dismal showing at the polls last month.
President Jacob Zuma and other ANC leaders had not influenced traditional leaders not to vote for the IFP leader, the ruling party said on Monday.
The top post in the KwaZulu-Natal house of traditional leaders currently occupied by Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi will be up for grabs this week.
The aftershocks of the IFP’s dismal showing in the general election are still reverberating through the party.
President-elect Jacob Zuma on Wednesday marked his election with a conciliatory speech, reaching out to opposition parties.
IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi on Wednesday congratulated president-elect Jacob Zuma and called for reconciliation between his party and the ANC.
According to the IFP, ordinary voters were tired of the ANC’s inability to develop, the rural areas especially.
Mario Oriani-Ambrosini has been IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s special adviser since the early Nineties, often at taxpayers’ expense.
The Inkatha Freedom Party’s Youth Brigade has called an urgent meeting to discuss reported discontent with party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
Five more people have been arrested for the murder of an African National Congress supporter and the attempted murder of six others in KwaZulu-Natal.
It was an easy win for the ANC. But what quickly emerged was that a shift had occurred in the South African political landscape.