KwaZulu-Natal National Freedom Party (NFP) chairperson Mbali Shinga has lost her appeal against her expulsion and is effectively no longer a member of the party.
The charges emanated from her defiance of the party’s directive to support the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK Party) sponsored motion of no confidence against Premier Thami Ntuli last year.
The NFP acts as the kingmaker in the provincial legislature because it holds a single, decisive seat in an 80-member house where no party achieved a majority in the 2024 elections.
NFP secretary-general Sunset Bheki Xaba has confirmed the expulsion of Shinga.
Xaba says in a statement addressed to all structures and members of the party that Shinga was found guilty of misconduct and gross insubordination and expelled from the party with immediate effect.
He says Shinga’s termination as NFP member also effectively terminates her seat in the legislature.
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