ANC KZN slams IFP's flagrant abuse of Ulundi Municipal funds for media coverage of their political rally
18 October 2017
The African National Congress (ANC) in KwaZulu-Natal condemns the IFP for embarking on its old era Bantusan’s desperate tactics of flagrant abuse of municipal resources.
This after the current edition of Ilanga newspaper, carried an advertorial page clearly indicated that its paid for by Ulundi Local Municipality but baffling to all is the content featuring an IFP political rally with the party’s leader Dr. Mangosuthu Buthelezi as the main speaker.
As the ANC we condemn this flagrant abuse of public funds for political campaigning by the IFP. It is very clear that municipal coffers are being looted to promote the IFP’s self-congratulatory rhetoric a year after the local government elections. This is a clear demonstration that the IFP has no interest in fighting poverty and underdevelopment in Ulundi and the Zululand District. After a year in office the IFP can only account for self-congratulatory rallies as opposes to water, electricity, infrastructure and sanitation.
The abuse of tax payer’s money for political expediency by the IFP is a foretaste of the bleak future and condemnation to poverty that residents in IFP controlled municipality will be subjected to in the coming years. Even more startling is Inkosi Buthelezi participation in these activities which imply that he is complicit to this blatant and corrupt act and is in fact condoning it and benefiting from it.