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ActionSA Parliamentary leader Athol Trollip said ActionSA is deeply concerned about the severe water crisis in eThekwini, where 55% of the population

The release opens business opportunities for both established developers and emerging first-time developers.

The first leg of the annual Zulu Royal Reed Dance, took place last week, at Emachobeni Royal Palace in Ingwavuma, and was attended by an estimated 5000 maidens.

Three political parties – the DA, ANC and ActionSA – are gearing up for Wednesday's by-election in the eThekwini Municipality's hotly contested uMhlanga ward 35.

“The municipality is also one of the leading concentration regions of hijacked and abandoned buildings. ”

The DA successfully retained all wards that they had held in Wednesday's by-elections in KwaZulu-Natal, with the MK Party (MKP) snatching a ward from the ANC in the Ray Nkonyeni Municipality on the South Coast.

Mantashe's comments came after a meeting of the party's National Working Committee which analysed the party's electoral performance, particularly in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng.

The KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Social Development, Mbali Shinga, will visit the grieving Khambule family on Monday after seven members were brutally murdered in Highflats last week.

Speaking in Zulu, Zuma said the current MKP leadership was strong and formidable, and therefore there was no need to hold an elective conference.

MK Party leader Jacob Zuma said that holding a national elective conference would pose a threat to the organisation as the party fears that spies linked to the ANC could seek to infiltrate and sabotage them.