Voters are tapping into Zuma’s MKP for solutions to KZN water crisis

• Water scarcity and political power are colliding in KwaZulu-Natal, where failing taps may decide who controls key municipalities this November.

• Jacob Zuma’s MK Party is riding a wave of voter frustration, turning chronic water crises into potential electoral gains against the ANC and IFP.

• Inside Politics reveals how leaking pipes, tanker politics, and service delivery failures are reshaping the province’s political map.
  
  By Jonathan Erasmus

Voters in some of KwaZulu-Natal’s worst water-hit municipalities appear to be placing their faith in the uMkhonto weSizwe Party to turn those crises around, an Inside Politics analysis of water-risk and election data shows.

In 2021, the ANC and IFP divided control of most of the province’s municipalities. Three years later, Jacob Zuma’s MK Party tore through much of that political geography in the national and provincial elections.

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