The NFP has been given a lifeline to contest one municipality in the August local government in northern KwaZulu-Natal.
“NFP will contest the elections in eNquthu Municipality. They do have about 17 candidates that will be part of the general election on the August 3‚”the IEC told eNCA.
The NFP submitted all the required documents on time in the municipality qualifying the party to contest the elections for the Nquthu council.
Earlier in the week‚ the Electoral Court dismissed the party’s bid to be included on the ballot paper after it missed the Electoral Commission of SA’s payment deadline. The NFP has consistently argued that an administrative error was the reason for missing the deadline.
The NFP is challenging the decision of the court in the Constitutional Court.
The Electoral Court’s decision was a blow for the already embattled NFP‚ the country’s fifth-biggest political party‚ whose leader Zanele Magwaza-Msibi has been out of action for more than a year after falling ill at the end of 2014‚ leading to a vacuum that led to divisions within the party.
At the weekend two senior party members‚ secretary-general Nhlanhla Khubisa and national chairman Maliyakhe Shelembe‚ resigned from the NFP.
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