NFP's disciplinary hearing for 'defiant' MEC set

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.

- WILLEM PHUNGULA

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.