The NFP, including its leader Zanele Magwaza-Msibi, have been ordered to pay legal costs for the urgent interdict.
Things came to a head on Wednesday, after the NFP wrote to the legislature asking presiding officers not to let Mlotshwa take an oath of office as a its member. The NFP national structure says it has expelled Mlotshwa. NFP spokesperson, Simo Mkhwanazi, says the party’s National Executive Committee had taken the decision after it carefully studied its performance in the elections. Mkhwanazi says Mlotshwa was informed about the decision, however he chose to ignore it.
“Yes we did send the letter to the Legislature, they took a resolution to actually revisit the list and decide either they would take the list as it is to the Legislature or there would be any changes and eventually they decided that Mr. Vikizitha Mlotshwa must be withdrawn from the list and he was informed. He persisted to actually accept and declared his availability, which was then against the resolution which the party took when the NEC sat.
Mlotshwa hit back and took the party to court and won an interim interdict. KwaZulu-Natal NFP Secretary, Zandile Myeni, says the Pietermaritzburg High Court has granted a court order preventing the Legislature from swearing in Mlotshwa’s replacement. Myeni says they will deal with their internal squabbles.
“We went to court, Pietermaritzburg High Court and we were granted an order that stipulates that the letter is not an official letter so it means it was just an internal issue of which we will deal with it when the time is right. I can also say to the members of the NFP in KZN, honourable Mlotshwa will indeed be sworn in as a Member of Parliament in due course,” says Myeni.
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