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/ 30 January 2011
The IFP has formally expelled members of the party who defected along with the party’s former nation chairperson Zanele Magwaza-Msibi.
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) national chairperson Zanele Magwaza-Msibi and her backers have cut ties with the IFP.
The door was still open for IFP’s beleaguered national chairperson to reconcile with the party, president Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Thursday.
Results from four municipal by-elections held in KZN this week dealt a blow to the aspirations of IFP national chairperson Zanele Magwaza-Msibi.
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/ 18 January 2011
Cosatu was worried about individuals launching parties close to elections, KwaZulu-Natal provincial secretary Zet Luzipho said on Tuesday.
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/ 17 January 2011
The IFP says it is pleased with a court’s dismissal of chairperson Zanele Magwaza-Msibi’s attempt to force an elective conference.
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/ 15 January 2011
As the IFP’s squabbling over leadership positions threatens to derail its aspirations, the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal is striking while the iron is hot.
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.