Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) President Velenkosini Hlabisa says the party is prepared to hit the ground running to deliver results to its constituencies.
With fifty-four percent of the vote counting complete in KwaZulu-Natal, the IFP has successfully retained 13 municipalities.
Preliminary results also show that the party is on track to take further municipalities from the African National Congress (ANC).
Hlabisa says while the party is excited at its progress, it is very aware of the responsibility it has to South Africans.
“But it did not come as a surprise, we had worked for it. The media knows when they were asking us we were confident that there are municipalities that we have earmarked that we will take them from the ANC and we were confident we would retain the municipalities. We were governing and we did that while excited but we are also sober that the people of this municipalities have placed a great responsibility on our shoulders.”
Hlabisa says each of the IFP appointed mayors will have to sign a performance agreement contract that commits them to carry out the party’s ten-point plan.
“We will table in front of each and every mayor a ten-point plan and we will get into a performance agreement with each mayor that here is the mandate we promised to our people and we want you as the mayor and the council to go back and work a plan of how are you going to deliver on this mandate.”
The party has however expressed concern about how the IEC captured results:
