The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has been meeting frequently to woo back former ANC members who stood as independent candidates in the 2016 local government elections. In the eThekwini municipality alone 58 candidates, mostly former ANC councillors, stood as independents, of which only five won. In the KwaDukuza municipality one of two former ANC councillors who stood as independents won their wards, while in the uMkhanyakude district municipality five stood as independent candidates. Most of the candidates had lobbied for former KwaZulu-Natal premier Senzo Mchunu in the November 2015 ANC provincial elective conference in his failed bid to retain the position of ANC provincial chair against Sihle Zikalala.
Some of the independent candidates beat candidates who had received the ANC provincial leadership’s nod to stand as ANC candidates. One of these councillors, Njabulo Mabanga, trounced his ANC rival and won the eThekwini ward 107, which includes Ntuzuma and Inanda north of Durban. Ma...
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