MK Party demands no confidence vote against KZN Premier

The uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK Party) has issued a dramatic call for all its members, supporters, and progressive forces across KwaZulu-Natal to unite behind a Vote of No Confidence against Premier Thami Ntuli and the DA-led coalition government, which it describes as a “Provincial Unity” government masking minority interests.

In a statement released on Thursday, the party framed the upcoming parliamentary motion not simply as a legislative procedure, but as a confrontation between two visions of power in the province.

“This province cannot continue under a coalition whose political DNA is rooted in protecting privilege, preserving elite control and maintaining the economic structures that keep the African majority on the margins of their own land,” the party said. According to MK Party spokesperson Nhlamulo Ndhlela, the coalition government has been operating as a “political experiment engineered to stabilise minority interests at the expense of the suffering black working class.”

The statement highlighted what it called the failure of the DA-IFP coalition to address unemployment, service delivery, and inequality in KwaZulu-Natal. “Unemployment grows, services collapse and inequality widens while those who claim to govern busy themselves with defending inherited power,” the MK Party said. The party positioned itself as a vehicle for the people’s will, rejecting “any system that reduces Africans to spectators in their own province.”

The Vote of No Confidence, the party insists, is symbolic as much as it is procedural. “It is a confrontation between two visions, one that protects the old order and another that seeks to dismantle it so that the resources of Kwa-Zulu Natal serve the people who built this province with their labour and sacrifice,” Ndhlela said. The party stressed that neutrality, particularly among Members of the Legislature, is not acceptable.

“The people have spoken through their lived experience, through their poverty, through their exclusion. They want a government that understands their struggle, not one that treats their suffering as background noise to elite negotiations,” the statement read.

The MK Party also called on progressive forces and legislators committed to breaking the hold of neoliberal governance to collaborate in building a new provincial administration. The party described this envisioned government as one that is “rooted in the will of the people, accountable to the people and guided by the clear understanding that true political power belongs to those who produce and sustain society, not those who exploit it.”

The statement was both highly combative and rhetorically charged, mixing elements of revolutionary rhetoric with contemporary political critique. It frames the motion as a broader struggle against systemic inequality, rather than a simple vote against a single premier.

The MK Party asserts that their push is part of a longer-term plan to shift political power away from elites and toward ordinary citizens, emphasizing that those who sustain the province with their labour should be the ones to govern it.

Ndhlela insists that the party is prepared to work with any force committed to these principles, signalling potential alliances ahead of the parliamentary vote.