NFP caucus manager slams Mbali Shinga’s expulsion

KwaZulu-Natal Social Development MEC Mbali Shinga visited the Twelve Apostles Church in Trinity in Mandeni on May 27, 2026.

KwaZulu-Natal Legislature’s National Freedom Party (NFP) Caucus Manager Innocent Shezi has criticised his party’s expulsion of Mbali Shinga.

Lawyers representing Shinga, who was Social Development MEC, will on Tuesday file court papers to challenge her dismissal from the NFP.

Her legal team says the process was procedurally unfair and will seek to stop the KZN Speaker from removing her.

Shinga was found guilty on charges of misconduct and gross insubordination.

This emanated from her defiance of the party’s directive to support the uMkhonto weSizwe (MKP) sponsored motion of no confidence against Premier Thami Ntuli last year.

NFP leader Ivan Barnes is set to be sworn in as a Member of Provincial Legislature following the removal of Shinga.

Shezi says, “Politically, we are saying that the party must ask whether the action strengthens or weakens the NFP because, honestly speaking, removing the only MPL in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature during an election period does not build the organisation, and we need to be honest about that. It only creates instability, and it also undermines the province where the NFP only has representation in this province alone across the country.”