Inkatha Freedom Party
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Oct 23, 2026
Mmusi MaimaneGUEST
If you look at the parties around us, you take the Patriotic Alliance, that is a party for colored nationalism.
Mmusi MaimaneGUEST
You look at parties like the MK party, Zulu nationalism, the IFP, Zulu nationalism.
Mmusi MaimaneGUEST
All of these tribal effects make the parties grow faster.
Mmusi MaimaneGUEST
But when it's said and done, do they serve South Africa?
John PerlmanHOST
Over this week and next on 702 Drive, we're spending time with different political parties looking at key areas of policy and undertakings that they're setting out in their manifestos and in the messages that they are sharing with voters.
John PerlmanHOST
Today, it's the turn of the IFP, and we joined to represent that party today.
John PerlmanHOST
by Mlungisi Mabaso, who is the IFP's mayoral candidate for Johannesburg.
John PerlmanHOST
Mr. Mabaso, welcome and thanks very much for giving us your time.
Mlungisi MabasoGUEST
Thank you very much, Putjon, and greetings to yourself and the
John PerlmanHOST
listeners.
John PerlmanHOST
You took Mr Mabaso as the IFP of running the finances responsibly of municipalities living within their means, and yet you make substantial promises in regard to, for example, informal settlements.
John PerlmanHOST
They will get electricity.
Kingsley WakelinSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
With a clear goal, we need to grow to at least 3.5%.
Zalene MerringtonCORRESPONDENT
IFP chief Hoop Nklantle Hadebe says the budget addressed crucial matters in a positive way.
Mkhuleko HlengwaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
The minister also talked about making allocations towards gender-based violence and femicide.
Mkhuleko HlengwaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
We know the challenges that our communities are facing.
Jack MillerGUEST
So the decision was, do I stay? Because growing up as a child, my father was very good friends with Dr.
Jack MillerGUEST
Mario Ambrosini, who was the right-hand man to Prince Mangusutu Butelezi and the IFP.
Jack MillerGUEST
So actually, the first party that I supported was the IFP.
Jack MillerGUEST
And they had a vision for a federal system in South Africa.
Jack MillerGUEST
And South Africa would have been a much better country had Prince Mangusutu Botilesi had more control over the direction of it.
Jack MillerGUEST
Unfortunately, what happened in 94 in the CODIS agreements is the IFP was excluded and you had the centrist totalitarian apartheid government handing over power to the centrist totalitarian ANC government.
Jack MillerGUEST
So, yes, I grew up in a family where Mario was like a second father to me.
Jack MillerGUEST
Prince Mangasutu Botelesi, I had tremendous respect for.
Frans CronjeGUEST
We have great reverence for people who are in ill health and the consequences of that or ultimately what they might be, then particularly so.
Frans CronjeGUEST
A, a colleague reminded me, in fact, yesterday afternoon when I said I wanted to come in to talk to you, uh, that, that after the, the death of, uh, Buthelezi, we saw a significant bump in support for the IFP.
Frans CronjeGUEST
Um, the MK campaign strategy is, is, is very good.
Frans CronjeGUEST
It's, it's, it is to say- I, and Jacob Zuma himself, was a great hero of the struggle, which is true.
Billy PainterGUEST
To, I'll try to squeeze this in real quick.
Billy PainterGUEST
The opposition, the, the Inkatha Freedom Party, which were, uh, again, the Zulus and the Xhosas.
Billy PainterGUEST
The Inkatha Freedom Party were the Zulus.
Billy PainterGUEST
The ANC mostly were the, were the Xhosas.
Billy PainterGUEST
Now, that, and that was Mandela's tribe.
Billy PainterGUEST
Well, you know, if you watch it on TV, th- uh, there's a, uh, there's a movie about Mandela with, uh, Sidney Poitier and Michael Caine.
Billy PainterGUEST
And, um, right there, they tried to make the Inkatha Freedom Party look like the, the big, bad monsters, till I looked at the ideology where Inkatha Freedom Party were anti-communist and a, a- and a more right-leaning conservative group that wa- that really didn't advo- advocate for violence.
Billy PainterGUEST
Whereas the ANC are, are left-wing, far left communists.
DJ FreshHOST
Mm.
Botsang Modimowame MoiloaGUEST
That Inkatha Freedom Party-
DJ FreshHOST
Mm
Botsang Modimowame MoiloaGUEST
... which had boycotted elections-
John DludluGUEST
But in the recent times, we can trace it back to the settlement period.
John DludluGUEST
that was made to get Ngata to come onto the ballot box in 1994, the issue of land was left unresolved.
John DludluGUEST
And it was just stitched up as a compromise.
John DludluGUEST
I call it a fudge because they just kicked the can further down the line.
John HlopheGUEST
Sure.
John HlopheGUEST
Uh, Bongani, you know, I think it's historical, but in the recent times, um, we can trace it back to the settlement, uh, that was made, uh, to get Inkatha to, uh, come onto the ballot box in 1994.
John HlopheGUEST
Uh, the issue of land, uh, was left unresolved, and it was just stitched up, uh, to, as a compromise.
John HlopheGUEST
I call it a fudge, uh, because, uh, it wa- they just kicked the can, uh, down, further down the line.
speaker_0HOST
So with South Africa heading towards local government elections, immigration has become a powerful political flashpoint.
speaker_0HOST
KZN March in March has attracted support from political parties, including ActionSA, the MK Party, and, uh, IFP, raising questions about whether public frustration is being channeled into electoral support or deepening anti-migrant sentiment.
speaker_0HOST
Political analyst Dr. Dale McKinley joins us to examine the political calculations behind these alliances, the real concerns facing communities, and what this means for democracy and social cohesion ahead of the polls.
speaker_0HOST
Dr-Dr. McKinley, as always, uh, a very good morning to you and welcome.
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