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MKP battles internal divisions ahead of crucial KZN by-elections
The Mercury
|April 01, 2025
THE uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MKP) is working around the clock to flush out divisions among its structures, which have cost it votes during previous by-elections, said Willies Mchunu.
The party's KwaZulu-Natal convener was speaking ahead of the ward 99 by-election in uPhongolo Municipality, in northern KZN.
The party, whose formation in December 2023 saw the ANC losing its grip on power, leading to the establishment of the Government of National Unity and KwaZulu-Natal Government of Provincial Unity, are set to battle it out against its competitors in by-elections that take place tomorrow in the uPhongolo and KwaDukuza municipalities.
The ward councillor position in uPhongolo was left vacant after the death of IFP ward councillor Mthokozeni Gedion Dlangamadla on January 12.
While Mchunu campaigned in uPhongolo, Jacob Zuma was in KwaDukuza Municipality campaigning for MKP candidate Doeshiee Govender in the ward 28 by-election. Govender resigned last month as the ANC councillor in the same ward.
Zuma addressed hundreds of his supporters in a rally at Shakaskraal.
This story is from the April 01, 2025 edition of The Mercury.
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