Durban - Stepping aside from leading the political party he founded just over 44 years ago would not negatively affect the electorate at Wednesday’s polls or the future of the Inkatha Freedom Party , according to prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
The IFP had excellent leaders, he said, who enjoyed widespread support. And the man chosen to succeed him – the party’s KZN premier candidate Velenkosini Hlabisa - also enjoyed “unanimous support” within IFP structures, said Buthelezi. “His exit is not going to damage the IFP [at Wednesday’s polls], I think they are going to be stable, but in terms of growth, I don’t think they are going to grow. They won’t shed any voting constituencies – for now,” Dube told ANA.
“He had the opportunity to make the IFP the most influential contender in our country during the time of Frank Mdlalose, Ben Ngubane and Ziba Jiyane,” said Dube. Jiyane became somewhat politically promiscuous after his time with the IFP, which included an attempt at starting his own party. He is today considered politically irrelevant.
As for the actual forecasts for the IFP in Wednesday’s polls, elections’ analyst Dawie Scholtz said inroads made by the party during by-elections indicated that the race between it and the Democratic Alliance for the title of official opposition in the province was “too close to call”. The IFP lost that position to the DA in the 2014 general election.
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