MK Party scores second councillor seat in KZN

DURBAN - The uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party has a second councillor in KwaZulu-Natal, after winning by-elections in Ward 14 in KwaMadlala.

Eleven by-elections took place in parts of the province on Wednesday, mostly contested by the African National Congress (ANC), Democratic Alliance (DA), MK Party and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP).

The MK Party’s Pat Madlala got 51% of the votes in the Ward 14 by-election in the Ray Nkonyeni Local Municipality, snatching the ward from the ANC in the lower south coast of the province.

The ANC got 39%, while the IFP received 8%.

In June this year, the former speaker in the Umzumbe Local Municipality, Sibonelo Maphumulo, became the first MK Party councillor in the country after leaving the ANC for the MK Party.

Madlala is the second party councillor in the province after securing victory in the latest by-elections.

The MK Party's national organiser, Floyd Shivambu, referred to this as a decisive victory.