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The IFP says the ruling of the Constitutional Court on the Matatiele
issue does not exonerate the ruling African National Congress from its
responsibility to the people of Matatiele. According to the IFP, the
Constitutional Court did not pronounce on the injustice meted out on the
people of Matatiele when the ANC used its majority to run roughshod over
their wishes. Expressing the IFP's position following yesterday's
ruling, the IFP MPL who is Leader of the Opposition in the KwaZulu-Natal
Legislature, Dr Bonginkosi Buthelezi said:

"We fully respect yesterday's ruling of the Constitutional Court on the
issue of Matatiele. However in our view, the court did not exonerate the
ANC from its responsibility to the people of the area.

"The court merely stated that the legislation was not unconstitutional
and that it is not its prerogative to decide which province the people
must live in. It did not get into the polemics of the argument
especially on the fact that the ANC used its majority in the
KwaZulu-Natal Legislature to run roughshod over the people of Matatiele
who had democratically stated their determination to remain in the
KwaZulu-Natal Province.

"The IFP believe that this issue is not over yet because it is a
political issue rather than a legal one. Its solution finally lies in
the ANC doing justice by listening to the wishes of the majority of the
Matatiele residents. As the IFP, we are still going to put pressure on
the ruling party to desist from using the tyranny of its majority to ram
their party-political decisions down the throats of the people of
Matatiele."