IPF: We'll sacrifice GPU rather than surrender municipality

THE IFP will not hand over control of the Zululand District Municipality to the NFP, even if this saves the precarious Government of Provincial Unity (GPU) from collapse.

- WILLEM PHUNGULA

The IFP said that it will not give away its Zululand District Municipality to the NFP. I

Instead it wants the NFP to come up with alternative demands prior to the two parties meeting.

This was revealed by a senior member of the IFP ahead of the parties' meeting which is expected to take place this weekend. The NFP had previously threatened to pull out of the GPU - the coalition arrangement it has with the ANC, DA and the IFP.

Sources have said that the NFP will stay in the GPU if it gets one municipality in KZN on top of running the social development department which is headed by its sole legislature member, Mbali Shinga.

The NFP wants the Zululand District Municipality but the IFP does not want to hand over control of this crucial region.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the IFP leader said the view of the party is that the NFP's demand to be handed over the Zululand District Municipality 'is totally unreasonable'.