With just over a week to go before South Africans head to the polls, the Inkatha Freedom Party will intensify its election campaign in the hope of regaining the governing seat in its home province of KwaZulu-Natal.
The IFP governed the province of KwaZulu-Natal from the first democratic elections in 1994 until 2004, when the ANC garnered most of the votes at 46.98%, while the IFP received 36.82%. The IFP’s voter share percentage in KZN has since declined through the years, slipping to third position in the province behind the Democratic Alliance in the last general elections of 2014. They got 11% of the voter share while the ANC obtained 65%.
The IFP’s core support is a Zulu-speaking constituency. However, Hlabisa said the party had seen significant growth among the urban electorate “in areas such as eThekwini [Durban], Johannesburg, Limpopo, North West and the Eastern Cape.
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