Team Sugar | |
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Leader | Musa Thwala |
Split from | Economic Freedom Fighters |
National Assembly seats | 0 / 400 |
NCOP seats | 0 / 90 |
Provincial Legislatures | 0 / 430 |
Team Sugar is a South African political party chiefly present in northern KwaZulu-Natal. It broke away from the Economic Freedom Fighters and was initially active as a labour and social movement focusing on factory worker rights.[1][2]
The party forms part of the governing coalition in Newcastle. Leader Musa Thwala was deputy mayor until being voted out by his colleagues in March 2024.[3]
The party first contested the 2021 municipal elections, winning seven seats in the Newcastle Local Municipality, three seats in the Amajuba District Municipality and one in the Dannhauser Local Municipality.[1]
The party retained a ward seat in a Newcastle by-election after its coalition partner, the Inkatha Freedom Party, agreed to support its candidate.[4][5]
Election | Votes | % |
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2021[6] | 27,722 | 0.09% |