The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) on Sunday voted to postpone its general conference until a disciplinary inquiry was conducted into national chairperson Zanele Magwaza-Msibi.
The party’s conference scheduled for July 23 would only take place after Magwaza-Msibi cleared her name and “normalisation of atmosphere within the party”, read its resolution.
The resolution said intra-party fighting had become violent and that the creation of “bogus party branches” was threatening to make the conference illegitimate.
The conference would procede only after the party was structurally sound and “current divisions have been resolved”.
This will be considered at a national concil meeting scheduled for late October.
The resolution named uThukela, eThekwini, Amajuba, Indlovu and Newcastle as areas where the branches would not qualify to participate in the conference.
The IFP has been wracked by internal fighting, some of it violent, for the past several months.
Magwaza-Msibi has been seen as challenging IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi as head of the party. – Sapa