Mangosuthu Buthelezi’s reign as the leader of the IFP has finally ended
After more than four decades at the helm of the IFP, Buthelezi announced that he would be stepping down at the party’s next elective conference
NFP leader Zanele ka Magwaza-Msibi has accepted her appointment as the new deputy minister of science and technology.
The M&G puts 10 tough questions to Zanele Magwaza-Msibi, founder and leader of the National Freedom Party.
Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has replied to an article in last week’s M&G relating to the talks between his party and the NFP.
The Inkatha Freedom Party and the National Freedom Party have been engaging in talks in order to quell the violence between their supporters.
As horse trading over coalitions to run at least 19 KZN municipalities continued, there was the distinct smell of decomposing horse meat on the table.
The National Freedom Party strategists ascribe the three-month-old organisation’s successful début to little else but the commitment of its members.
Cope put a brave face on its poor showing in the municipal election, insisting that the future belongs to South Africa’s small parties.
The beleaguered IFP’s control of 32 of KZN’s 61 municipalities was under serious threat as results from the local elections rolled in.
All eyes are on Ulundi to see how the new NFP party fares — and Nkandla, the traditional home of President Zuma, where many residents feel neglected.
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/ 18 February 2011
SUV exhaust fumes and free T-shirts are probably the only guarantees the electorate can be certain of from politicians.
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/ 12 February 2011
The "sun of hope" rose at Durban’s Curries Fountain Ground on Saturday according to former Inkatha Freedom Party chairperson Zanele Magwaza.
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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.
Massive defections from Buthelezi’s stronghold could spell the end for the old order.
The ANC has denied the claims of a letter that it had offered former IFP chairperson Zanele Magwaza-Msibi a job.
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.
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.
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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/ 31 October 2007
The continuing succession debate in the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) should focus more on devising strategies to manage the change of leadership and less on bashing party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi over perceptions that he is clinging to power, argues Zukile Majova.