Premier-elect Thami Ntuli will announce his cabinet picks in the official opening of the seventh administration on Tuesday. (Darren Stewart/ Gallo Images)
The IFP has returned to the helm of KwaZulu-Natal after two decades, with the party’s Thami Ntuli being elected premier as a result of a provincial government of unity (PGU) agreement between the ANC and DA.
The parties in the KwaZulu-Natal coalition, referred to as the PGU, successfully pushed through its deal to retain ANC speaker Nontembeko Boyce, and elect the DA’s Mmabatho Tembe as her deputy and the IFP’s Ntuli as premier.
Unlike before, ANC and IFP MPLs sat on one side of the benches and voted together, while the EFF and MK Party voted together on the opposite side.
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