IFP confident of overhauling MK Party in KZN poll results

DURBAN - The Inkatha Freedom Party's (IFP) Tobias Gumede has attributed the MK Party’s early successes in KwaZulu-Natal in these elections to widespread frustrations with the current status quo but doesn’t expect its current lead to last.

These are the very first elections the newly formed MK Party has contested, and it’s arrived with a bang, taking a significant lead in the KZN provincial ballot early on.

The province is traditionally an African National Congress (ANC) and IFP stronghold and Eyewitness News spoke to Gumede about his views around the new kid on the block’s performance so far on Thursday.

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Currently, the IFP is third in line after the ANC, but Gumede is adamant that they’ll come out on top in the end.

He said that they were still waiting for the results from eThekwini, in particular, and some of their strongholds, he said, had not been captured yet.

Gumede said it was evidence of the frustrations of the people of KZN.

"When people are frustrated, they’ll opt for a new thing and think they’ll get something different. But I'm telling you, this is not what’s going to happen here, it’s going to change soon."
 
Whether or not it will, remains to be seen. But with the ANC and the IFP both sitting with around half the number of votes the MK Party has at the moment, as its closest rivals, it’s going to take a massive surge.