{"id":53825,"date":"2023-09-20T22:21:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T22:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/im-still-mourning-buthelezi-petros-ngubane-chastises-anc-abc-for-sacking-of-8-ifp-councillors"},"modified":"2023-09-20T23:29:54","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T23:29:54","slug":"im-still-mourning-buthelezi-petros-ngubane-chastises-anc-abc-for-sacking-of-8-ifp-councillors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/im-still-mourning-buthelezi-petros-ngubane-chastises-anc-abc-for-sacking-of-8-ifp-councillors","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m still mourning Buthelezi&#8217;: Petros Ngubane chastises ANC, ABC for sacking of 8 IFP councillors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>In a move that is sure to escalate smouldering tensions between the IFP and ANC-led coalitions in KwaZulu-Natal, the uMvoti Local Municipality&#8217;s troika has officially fired eight IFP councillors and one other on account of their absence from consecutive council meetings in July.<\/p>\n<p>The eight include Petros Ngubane, who doubles as the mayor of the uMzinyathi District Municipality. The ninth councillor, Mbuyiseni Majozi, belongs to the Abantu Batho Congress (ABC).<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (Cogta) MEC Bongiwe Sithole-Moloi put the final nail in their coffin when she wrote a letter on 18 September to the Electoral Commission of SA (IEC), notifying the commission of the councillors&#8217; axing.<\/p>\n<p>Six of them are ward councillors, meaning the municipal manager will have to declare vacancies and, by default, steps toward by-elections.<\/p>\n<p>The IFP has previously decried the axing of its councillors as an ANC tactic to change the balance of power in municipalities that were hung in the 2021 municipal elections.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to IEC KwaZulu-Natal electoral officer Ntombifuthi Masinga, which News24 has seen, Sithole-Moloi concurred with ABC speaker Mfundo Masondo&#8217;s notice to fire the nine councillors.<\/p>\n<p>Her letter reads:<\/p>\n<p>In July, Masondo wrote to the IFP leaders warning them that they had abdicated their duties by being absent from or walking out without apologies in four consecutive meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Masondo notified Ngubane and others of the council leadership&#8217;s plan to take steps against them and gave the councillors a deadline to respond.<\/p>\n<p>He previously described the councillors&#8217; responses to the notice as &#8220;underwhelming&#8221; and said their affidavits were peppered with &#8220;irregularities&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to News24, Ngubane said the axing was a spit on the late Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi&#8217;s attempts at reconciliation between the ANC and IFP, both of which still bear wounds from violence that killed 20 000.<\/p>\n<p>Ngubane said he used Buthelezi&#8217;s funeral to get an audience with Sithole-Moloi to make her see reason.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;I&#8217;ve written a letter to the MEC. I think I&#8217;m still in mourning, as I had close ties with the late Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi. While we were at KwaPhindangene, I had an audience with the MEC, national minister and deputy minister of Cogta, talking about issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m disappointed that the MEC is handling matters like this. I&#8217;ve written a letter to her reminding her what her department said on this matter. There are flaws in this matter. The MEC is abusing her power,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;The ANC in KwaZulu-Natal has no decency and no ubuntu in their approach of doing things. It is a mockery of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal to have come and pay respects at the house of the founder of the IFP, Prince Buthelezi &#8230; [and] for them to behave like this.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think the ANC is serious about reconciliation. 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