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Beefed up local organisation and a public spending push could help the ruling party avoid a coalition next year, Unheralded, the campaign for next year's national elections started this month. The ruling African National Congress will be fighting on multiple fronts: to cut state spending and rein in domestic borrowing and the highest budget deficit since 2004 as it reassures its supporters it will step up help for those hit hardest by the deepening recession. And it has to counter those opposition parties determined to push the ANC share of the national vote below 50%, to open up an era of coalition politics.
The IFP claims that Makhanya has abused his platform as a journalist for decades in a bid to tarnish the political party’s name and that of its founder - Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
The march - scheduled for next Friday - comes after the publication ran an opinion piece titled ‘Hail the Mass Murderer’ penned by City Press editor, Mondli Makhanya about IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi.