{"id":12126,"date":"2026-01-08T23:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/12126\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T23:17:10","slug":"shinga-faces-disciplinary-action-for-defying-nfp-mandate-in-kzn-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/12126\/","title":{"rendered":"Shinga faces disciplinary action for defying NFP mandate in KZN legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Freedom Party (NFP) KwaZulu-Natal provincial chairperson Mbali Shinga is facing disciplinary action for not supporting the uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Party\u2019s motion to remove Thamsanqa Ntuli as premier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The party, which is the kingmaker in the KwaZulu-Natal Government of Provincial Unity coalition, said Shinga disobeyed instructions. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This followed her failure to carry out the party\u2019s mandate during the motion in December.<\/p>\n<p>Eyewitness News understands that Shinga appeared before a disciplinary committee on Wednesday, and returned to the hot seat again on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter seen by Eyewitness News, she was charged by the party for not supporting the motion of no confidence against Ntuli. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was also charged with failing to support a vote conducted through a secret ballot. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This was despite the party having instructed her to vote by secret ballot in favour of the motion. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the party ordered Shinga to resign by the end business on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ewn.co.za\/2026\/01\/07\/nfp-to-withdraw-from-kzn-government-of-provincial-unity\" target=\"_blank\">NFP to withdraw from KZN Government of Provincial Unity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National Freedom Party (NFP) KwaZulu-Natal provincial chairperson Mbali Shinga is facing disciplinary action for not supporting the uMkhonto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[397,398,403,400,399,401,96,402,406,405,404,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-12126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-ewn","9":"tag-ewn-news","10":"tag-ewn-south-africa","11":"tag-eye-witness-news","12":"tag-eyewitness-news","13":"tag-latest-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-today","16":"tag-prime-media-plus","17":"tag-primedia-plus","18":"tag-primedia","19":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}