ANC ready to oppose IFP
Nquthu council to elect new mayor
The ANC is ready to occupy and exercise a strong opposition role in Nquthu municipality and to hold the IFP government accountable.
KwaZulu-Natal ANC secretary Super Zuma told TMG Digital yesterday councillors will form a strong caucus.
“We are ready to play our role as an opposition in Nquthu. Our councillors know what to do and we have taken them through processes.”
Zuma said the ANC was not deploying any provincial executive committee members in Nquthu today when the municipality is set to sit to elect a mayor and other executive committee members.
The IFP will elect its mayor unopposed after it swept the boards with a landslide victory in last month’s by-elections in the troubled municipality.
The party won 19 seats to the ANC’s 11. The NFP‚ DA and EFF each have a single councillor in the 33-seat council.
The ANC in Inkosi Bhambatha region under which Nquthu falls‚ has also vowed not to be bystanders.
Lucky Moloi, the ANC’s mayoral candidate, said even with a quorum‚ the IFP will face a good run for their money.
“They will not get rest until we govern Nquthu‚” Moloi said.
Nquthu municipality failed to sit and elect its officials following the August 3 elections last year.
The department of cooperative governance and traditional affairs eventually dissolved the council in February this year, leading to fresh polls.
The IFP leadership was locked in a national council meeting yesterday.
IFP strongman and former deputy mayor Siyabonga Mabilabila Kunene is expected to be elected mayor of the rural town despite Kunene and five other people, including three councillors‚ facing charges of conspiracy to commit murder.
They are out on R7 000 bail after they were arrested on April 21.
Their matter has been transferred to the regional court in anticipation for trial‚ the Hawks said. They are due back in court on July 5.