ANC gets by-election beating in Zuma heartland
IFP said to have won 14 out of 17 wards in Nquthu contest in northern KwaZulu-Natal despite high-profile campaign by top ANC leaders
25 May 2017 - 12:19
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) claimed early successes in Nquthu‚ with reports of a landslide victory in a number of voting districts after by-elections at the dissolved northern KwaZulu-Natal municipality. So overwhelming was the IFP's clean sweep that many ANC members started to concede defeat on social media.
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