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NFP's disciplinary hearing for 'defiant' MEC set
Daily News
|January 06, 2026
THE NFP is forging ahead with plans to remove its sole member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature, Mbali Shinga with her disciplinary hearing expected to get under way from tomorrow.
She is being hauled before the hearing to face charges following her decision to vote against the Umkhonto weSizwe Party-sponsored motion of no confidence against Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli.
Shinga openly defied the party's directive to vote for Ntuli's removal on December 15, a decision that angered the party's top brass, prompting the NFP's national executive committee (NEC) to hold a special meeting which resolved to suspend her.
The NEC then wrote to the Speaker Nontembeko Boyce and asked her to remove Shinga as a member of the legislature. However, the Speaker turned down the request and cited rules that Shinga could only be removed once she had ceased to be a member of the party and not if she was suspended.
This story is from the January 06, 2026 edition of Daily News.
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