By Sihle Mavuso
The National Freedom Party (NFP) is allegedly facing fresh attempts to stop it from contesting the upcoming local government elections.
The attempt is allegedly being spearheaded by disgruntled members of the party who wrote to the Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) and asked to deregister the party.
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The allegations are contained in a letter written by the acting secretary-general of the party, Bheki Xaba.
Xaba said he wrote the letter to assure members of the national executive committee that leadership is aware of the attempt and would thwart it.
“It has come to our attention that a group of ill-disciplined and rogue elements within the party has approached the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) with a demand that the current leadership of the NFP be removed from the IEC records and that Sections 9
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