IFP members returning to the party should ‘not be screened or face trials’ as to why they left the party.
That was the message of the IFP’s National Chairperson Blessed Gwala at the Ndlangubo Tribal Court last week while welcoming more than 100 new members to the IFP.
‘The arrival of these new members bodes well for our Operation Buyisa uMlalazi Municipality, as we gear ourselves to reclaim the municipality we once controlled.
Gwala said it was imperative for IFP members to respect an order of party leader Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, to reach out to all South Africans to join the IFP, even those who defected from the party.
‘We must guard against the danger of losing focus of our main objective, which is to break the chains of poverty.
‘We must never reduce our politics to the level of discussing names, instead of discussing major issues affecting our people, such as poverty.
‘We must not even be tempted to fall in the same trap as that of the ruling party, which has deviated from focusing on real issues, but focusing on themselves as individuals.
‘Branches must ensure we have active structures and be visible to the people we lead. It is not correct that we are only known to people when there are elections,’ said Gwala, who was accompanied by other senior members of the IFP deployed in the National Assembly – Xolani Ngwezi and iNkosi Nsikayezwe Cebekhulu.
Many members who joined the IFP came from NFP and ANC. Among them was former NFP strongman Mntwana Mandla Biyela, a brother to iNkosi Hlanganani Biyela of the Ndlangubo Traditional Authority.
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