Sihle Mavuso
KwaZulu-Natal Social Development MEC Mbali Shinga has won the first round of her legal battle against NFP president Ivan Barnes, whom she has accused of trying to engineer her removal from the provincial legislature and take over the party’s seat.
Shinga scored an interim legal victory on Friday when the High Court in Pietermaritzburg interdicted the NFP and the KZN Legislature from proceeding with steps to remove and replace her as the party’s MPL, pending the finalisation of further internal and legal processes.
The court ruled that Shinga should remain an NFP member and a member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature for now, after finding that the party’s disciplinary and appeal processes had not been finally determined.
That was after Shinga argued in her court papers that the appeals tribunal which upheld her expulsion last month was not the final body that should hear her case.
She argued that
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