BY-ELECTIONS PREVIEW: KZN battle lines drawn as ANC defectors stand for Zuma’s breakaway MK Party in ward polls

There are by-elections in six wards in uMzumbe in KwaZulu-Natal’s Ugu district on Wednesday, triggered by the defection of ANC councillors to the newly formed breakaway uMkhonto Wesizwe party, which garnered 45.9% of the KZN vote in the 29 May elections. Four of the former ANC councillors are now candidates for the MK party in these by-elections. Here is the lineup.

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news24.com - 21/Jun 02:55

The ANC's power continues to wane drastically in KwaZulu-Natal, after the party lost four of its six wards in recent by-elections in the uMzumbe Local...

News24 | Bittersweet victory for Zuma's first councillor, an ANC mutineer

news24.com - 21/Jun 02:55

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dailynews.co.za - 19/Jun 07:59

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namibian.com.na - 23/Jun 04:58

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MK Party clashes with the ANC in six by-elections

dailynews.co.za - 19/Jun 19:52

Impeached Judge John Hlophe appointed MK Party’s chief whip in Parliament

namibian.com.na - 21/Jun 06:18

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Zohra Teke: In an MK landscape, where to now KZN?

dailynews.co.za - 18/Jun 12:21

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daily maverick - 20/Jun 10:05

In a string of by-elections in KwaZulu-Natal on Wednesday, the IFP topped off a good political week by winning wards off the ANC in Mthonjaneni and...

Despite earlier no-show, MK Party members to be sworn in to Parliament

namibian.com.na - 23/Jun 05:03

The Parliament of South Africa has confirmed that Umkhonto Wesizwe (MK) Party members will indeed be sworn in to the National Assembly. This comes...

JUNE BY-ELECTIONS: IFP takes ANC’s uMzumbe cake; while the DA dominates in Beaufort West and Cape Town wards

daily maverick - 20/Jun 12:01

IFP takes ANC's uMzumbe cake; while the DA dominates in Beaufort West and Cape Town wards. Analyst Wayne Sussman breaks down the June by-elections.

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