{"id":94318,"date":"2025-12-15T18:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-anc-confident-party-members-will-vote-against-premier-ntuli"},"modified":"2025-12-16T11:47:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T11:47:21","slug":"kzn-anc-confident-party-members-will-vote-against-premier-ntuli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-anc-confident-party-members-will-vote-against-premier-ntuli","title":{"rendered":"KZN ANC confident party members will vote against Premier Ntuli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) said it\u2019s confident its party members will toe the line and vote against the removal of Premier Thami Ntuli.<\/p>\n<p>The provincial legislature is convening on Monday to vote on a motion of no confidence in Ntuli, which was brought by the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party.<\/p>\n<p>For the motion to pass, the MK Party requires a majority of legislature members to vote in favour of it, meaning in the 80-member KZN Legislature, it requires at least 41 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Based on publicly available information, the MK Party currently has 39 members in the legislature in support of its motion.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC\u2019s second deputy convenor, Siboniso Duma, said that one extra vote won\u2019t be coming from his caucus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m fortunate enough that I grew up with the majority of those 14 members [ANC KZN Legislature caucus]. I\u2019ve known them for some 25, 20 and even 15 years. So, I do trust them [that] they are going to do a job. I\u2019m delegated, at this time, as the leader of the ANC in the legislature. I don\u2019t think there will be any shenanigans from the ANC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Alliance (DA)\u2019s provincial leader and MEC for Finance, Francois Rodgers, said that he\u2019s also confident the motion will fail.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the 16th, the sun will rise in KZN, and I\u2019ll still be the MEC for finance because I work on numbers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">South-Africa<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) said it\u2019s confident its party members will toe the line and vote against the removal of Premier Thami Ntuli. The provincial legislature is convening on Monday to vote on a motion of no confidence in Ntuli, which was brought by the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":94317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[275],"class_list":["post-94318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-parties","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>KZN ANC confident party members will vote against Premier Ntuli - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) said it\u2019s confident its party members will toe the line and v ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-anc-confident-party-members-will-vote-against-premier-ntuli\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"KZN ANC confident party members will vote against Premier Ntuli\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) said it\u2019s confident its party members will toe the line and v ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-anc-confident-party-members-will-vote-against-premier-ntuli\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-12-15T18:29:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-16T11:47:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1765811413.47568.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"831\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"477\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-anc-confident-party-members-will-vote-against-premier-ntuli#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-anc-confident-party-members-will-vote-against-premier-ntuli\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"KZN ANC confident party members will vote against Premier Ntuli\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-15T18:29:10+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-16T11:47:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-anc-confident-party-members-will-vote-against-premier-ntuli\"},\"wordCount\":259,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-anc-confident-party-members-will-vote-against-premier-ntuli#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2025\/12\/sm_1765811413.47568.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"parties\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-anc-confident-party-members-will-vote-against-premier-ntuli#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-anc-confident-party-members-will-vote-against-premier-ntuli\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/kzn-anc-confident-party-members-will-vote-against-premier-ntuli\",\"name\":\"KZN ANC confident party members will vote against Premier Ntuli - 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