MKP pushes new secret no-confidence vote against Ntuli — without DA or EFF backing

By Johnathan Paoli

KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli has dismissed the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK)’s renewed push to remove him from office as political gamesmanship, warning that the motion of no confidence threatens to undermine stability within the province’s fledgling Government of Provincial Unity (GPU).

MKP chief whip, Bonginkosi Mngadi, this week formally notified KZN Legislature Speaker Nontembeko Boyce of his party’s intention to table a fresh no-confidence motion against the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) premier at the next sitting, citing financial mismanagement, deteriorating service delivery and what it calls a collapsing coalition government.

“Honourable speaker, I, BC Mngadi, on behalf of the uMkhonto weSizwe Party, give notice in terms of Section 141, sub-section 2 of the constitution and rules 103, 105, and 106 of the standing rules of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature of my intention to move a motion of no confidence in honourable Thamsanqa Arthur Ntuli,” the chief whip wrote.