MEDIA STATEMENT
BY THE
INKATHA FREEDOM PARTY
IFP Optimistic That New ANC Leadership Will Revisit
Controversial Mangosuthu Decision
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24th June 2008 The Inkatha Freedom Party pins its hopes on the newly-elected leadership of the KwaZulu-Natal African National Congress to overturn the renaming of Mangosuthu Highway. The IFP expressed this view in a statement it issued today to congratulate the ANC Provincial leadership elected last weekend. Dr Bonginkosi Buthelezi, IFP Provincial Secretary stated: "On behalf of the IFP in KwaZulu-Natal I wish to congratulate the newly-elected Provincial Executive Committee of the KwaZulu-Natal African National Congress under its Chairperson, Dr Zweli Mkhize. In particular, we congratulate the whole KwaZulu-Natal ANC for holding a peaceful conference which is unlike the unfortunate spectacle that we have seen in recent ANC conferences in other Provinces. "We are hopeful too that the current leadership of the ANC will be able to place the good of the Province above party-political interests by working towards reviving good working relations between the ANC and the IFP. It is our conviction that good working relations between the two predominantly-black parties are essential, if we are serious about maximizing service delivery to millions of our people. Importantly, we are optimistic that, in the interest of peaceful coexistence and progress in the Province, the new ANC leadership will revisit controversial decisions such as the one taken by the ANC-led eThekwini Municipality to rename Mangosuthu Highway into Griffiths Mxenge Highway."
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