Thousands of National Freedom Party (NFP) members have braved the scorching heat and filled the Cecil Emmet sports ground in Vryheid in northern KwaZulu-Natal, with some of NFP members came from as far as Gauteng.
National Freedom Party (NFP) is on Sunday launching its national election manifesto in Vryheid in Northern KwaZulu-Natal.
The party could not participate in the 2016 municipal elections because it failed to pay its election registration fees on time.
It is expected that NFP leader Zanele KaMagwaza-Msibi will read a short part of her speech. This as she has not yet fully recovered from a severe stroke that she suffered in 2014.
The rest of the speech is expected to be read by party spokesperson Sipho Mkhwanazi.
Mkhwanazi says despite KaMagwaza-Msibi not yet having fully recovered from the stroke, the founding ideas of the party are still alive.
“We care for an individual because we understand that community is constituted by individuals. So given that, we will deny that her vision dies because we are still her hands, we are still her eyes, we are still her ears, we are still here as the leadership of the NFP to back that idea into materialisation, to back that idea into realisation. We will make sure that her idea never dies.”
The party has been racked by in-fighting, seeing senior leaders joining other parties.
Mkhwanazi says these leaders had disciplinary cases against them for transgressing the party’s constitution.
He says: “We cannot have rotten potatoes among the potatoes because it will spoil others. That’s why we said we would rather get rid of them even if it pains us, rather than to have them keeping on spoiling the organisation or driving the organisation to a parallel direction than the vision that the organisation has.”
“So, we took the decision and it was a bold decision, that we would rather lose them.”
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