Hours after withdrawing from the governing KZN provincial coalition, the National Freedom Party (NFP) has fired off several warnings to residents and lambasted its former partners. The NFP announced its withdrawal from the government of provincial unity (GPU) this week, also calling for their MPL in the legislature, Mbali Shinga, to resign from her post as MEC of Social Development. NFP President Ivan Barnes said on Friday that he had often complained about the high levels of corruption under KZN Premier Thami Ntuli.
Barnes said the NFP refused to remain silent as democracy’s values are “undermined”. “KwaZulu-Natal today faces a collapse of governance at both provincial and municipal levels. Service delivery has become inconsistent, inadequate, and in many communities, entirely absent,” he said.
“Infrastructure continues to deteriorate, eroding public confidence and worsening the lived realities of our people,” he said. He said politicians continue to enrich themselves while residents of KZN suffer. “We are governed by rogue rulers, not representatives, by men who invoke the Constitution while violating its spirit with impunity.
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The NFP warns the people of KwaZulu-Natal that we stand on the precipice. “The political elites of the ANC, IFP, and DA have demonstrated a reckless willingness to burn this province to preserve power and privilege, with no regard for the future of the next generation.” He said he was shocked that the DA is willing to remain in what he described as a corrupt government, despite being known for exposing ANC corruption in government.
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