2019 ELECTIONS: KwaZulu-Natal: Old kid on block back with a vengeance

With 16.34% of the provincial vote in the 2019 elections — up from 10.86% in 2014 — the Inkatha Freedom Party has regained ground in KwaZulu-Natal and emerged as the main opposition party to the ANC.

The reason people have put trust in the IFP is because the leadership of the IFP has integrity and is honest,” IFP national secretary General Velenkosini Hlabisa toldWhen the IFP is given an opportunity, the resources of the state do not get wasted through corruption.”for election violence and the election campaign was marred by various service delivery protests, particularly in the Alfred Duma local municipality in uThukela district.

Both the IFP and ANC saw a correlation between low voter turnout, voter discontent and the increasing frequency of service delivery protests in the province. ANC KZN provincial secretary Mdumiseni Ntuli admits that the ruling party has failed to deliver on its promises in some of its KZN municipalities, which has negatively impacted on its result.We’ve gone into the elections having a number of areas governed by the ANC, where there was a great deal of instability and a failure… to address some of our basic services and service delivery,” said Ntuli.The performance of the ANC may have been affected by violence in those areas.

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