Overview
- The KwaZulu-Natal legislature voted down the MK Party’s no-confidence motion, with the DA, ANC, IFP and NFP opposing it and the EFF backing it.
- Proceedings were disrupted after the Speaker declined a secret ballot, as MK and EFF members sang in the chamber and police were called to remove disruptive legislators.
- The MK Party holds 37 of 80 seats and needed 41 votes to unseat the premier, while NFP legislator Mbali Shinga dismissed the motion as political noise and stuck with the Government of Provincial Unity.
- Outside the chamber, the IFP and DA rallied in support of Ntuli, MK supporters kept a vigil, and Jacob Zuma attended the sitting; a Sunday World report said MK budgeted about R700,000 to transport supporters.
- Analysts cited ongoing instability and leadership churn in the MK Party as reasons to doubt its readiness to govern the province.