LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTION
Inkatha supporters celebrate Nquthu poll victory
The governing ANC needs to change its course and work hard if it is to reverse its recent electoral losses, analysts say.The Nquthu local government by-elections on Wednesday were convincingly won by the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) with 19 seats in the 33-seat council. The ANC won 11 and the DA, EFF, and National Freedom Party (NFP), one seat each.As scores of IFP supporters danced and celebrated in the streets of Nquthu, its leaders said they felt the party was vindicated after fighting off an ANC adversary that was using all the government resources at its disposal to garner votes.Velenkosini Hlabisa, the IFP’s KwaZulu-Natal leader, said: "The results prove that voters can now distinguish between genuine politicians, who have their interests at heart, and those who abused state resources and tried to buy votes with food parcels."Lukhona Mnguni, a political analyst at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, said that apart from a resurgence of the IFP, the Nquthu by-election results also ...
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