MK Party urges unity ahead of crucial no-confidence vote against KZN Premier Ntuli
The uMkhonto weSizwe Party's motion of no confidence against Premier Thami Ntuli will be voted on in the KZN Provincial Legislature on Monday, December 15.
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The Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Party has called for support as it prepares for its motion of no confidence vote against KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thami Ntuli.
The provincial legislature is set to vote on the party's motion of no confidence against the premier on Monday, December 15.
In a statement, the MKP said it is issuing a call to all members, supporters, and progressive forces across KZN to unite behind the vote against Premier Ntuli and what it called the “DA-led government, which is masked as Provincial Unity”.
KZN has a Government of Provincial Unity (GPU) coalition government which includes the IFP, DA, ANC and NFP.
The MK Party said: “This province cannot continue under a coalition whose political DNA is rooted in protecting privilege, preserving elite control, and maintaining the economic structures that keep the African majority on the margins of their own land,” said the statement.
It claimed that the GPU is a political experiment “engineered to stabilise minority interests at the expense of the suffering black working class”.
“Its purpose has been to manage the crisis of poverty instead of transforming the conditions that produce it. That is why unemployment grows, services collapse, and inequality widens while those who claim to govern busy themselves with defending inherited power,' said the party.
The MK Party added that the vote is not a parliamentary procedure.
“It is a confrontation between two visions: one that protects the old order and another that seeks to dismantle it so that the resources of KwaZulu-Natal serve the people who built this province with their labour and sacrifice.
“We call upon all progressive Members of the Legislature to recognise that neutrality in a moment of injustice is a luxury of the powerful. The people have spoken through their lived experience, through their poverty, and through their exclusion.
“They want a government that understands their struggle, not one that treats their suffering as background noise to elite negotiations. The MK Party is prepared to work with any force committed to breaking the hold of neoliberal governance in KwaZulu-Natal,” it said.
Meanwhile both the IFP and the DA have rejected the motion and are set to holding protest marches on Monday in Pietermaritzburg.