The Cape High Court will hear an application by the IFP and Cope about whether it was constitutional for the state to bar the Dalai Lama entry.
The ANC Youth League says it has already found an argument to appeal against the suspensions of its leadership.
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/ 3 November 2011
The ANC’s chief whip Mathole Motshekga says the ruling party will not recognise the proposed Parliamentary Institute of South Africa.
The IFP — as the third-largest party in South Africa — must take on an opposition role, party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi told supporters on Sunday.
The press ombudsman has ordered the <i>Sowetan</i> to run a front page apology to IFP president Mangosuthu Buthelezi for damage to his credibility.
The ANC-NFP coalition signalled a "dark day for democracy in KwaZulu-Natal," the IFP said on Monday.
The African National Congress (ANC) and the National Freedom Party (NFP) will work together in all hung municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal.
The Inkatha Freedom Party has urged its breakaway party, the National Freedom Party, to bring its coalition "preconditions" to the negotiating table.
The NFP has said it would not start coalition talks with the IFP until the IFP publicly apologises for its comments about the splinter group.
At least one party has begun talks to form coalitions, with a few others expressing an interest, as the local government elections draw to a close.
The first reaction to Sheryl Cwele’s sentencing for drug dealing has come through calling for the minister of state security to step down or be fired.
There is evidence that ANC leaders are providing help to a campaign aimed at destroying the IFP, IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi says.
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/ 15 February 2011
Opposition parties on Tuesday walked out of a government presentation on the contentious Protection of Information Bill.
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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.