By Sihle Mavuso
Embattled KwaZulu-Natal Social Development MEC Mbali Shinga has launched an urgent court bid to stop the National Freedom Party (NFP) from removing her from the provincial legislature after the party upheld her expulsion.
Shinga filed papers in the KwaZulu-Natal Division of the High Court in Pietermaritzburg on Wednesday, seeking an interdict preventing the NFP from asking provincial legislature Speaker Nontembeko Boyce to declare her seat vacant and replace her with party president Ivan Barnes.
She also wants the court to order the NFP to retract any communication already sent to Boyce seeking her removal, pending the finalisation of the dispute over her expulsion.
Shinga told the court her application was urgent because, if she followed the normal court roll and procedures, it could take up to two years for the matter to be heard.
By then, she said, Barnes and other NFP leaders would have succeeded in
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