NFP President Ivan Barnes and Mbali Shinga are still at loggerhead despite a court ruling that reinstated her in all her positions.
The NFP’s national leadership and its embattled KwaZulu-Natal Legislature member, Mbali Shinga, are headed to the Pietermaritzburg High Court again following their disagreement on legal representation.
In a letter inviting Shinga to appear before the National Working Committee (NWC) early next month for her appeal against the expulsion, the party informed her that she should not bring her legal representative and instead choose an ordinary party member. This was rejected by Shinga, who threatened to take the matter back to court.
Speaking through her lawyer, Sithembiso Mbhele, on Tuesday, Shinga rejected that and instructed her legal team to write to the NWC that she would be coming with her lawyer or she would take the matter to court for clarity.
“We are not going to allow that. No one will take away our client’s constitutional rights to legal representation. We are writing to the NWC to reject that. We will give them options that either she comes with her legal representative, or we go back to court,” said Mbhele.
