DA leader Chris Pappas recently sat down with News24 and spoke about the party's poster message: "Stop MK Party."

MK Party leader and axed judge John Hlophe is also expected to make his by-elections campaign debut, while ANC provincial leaders Siboniso Duma and Bheki Mtolo took part in campaigns in the South Coast earlier this week.

Last-minute campaigns and voting are in full swing in eThekwini and on the South Coast in the by-elections in the eThekwini metro, Ray Nkonyeni Local Municipality, and other municipalities in KwaZulu-Natal.

There will be nine by-elections in the province, but the focus has been on Ward 14 and Ward 24 in the Ray Nkonyeni municipality, where the MK Party has deployed heavyweights in their campaign; Ward 33 (Umbilo), 35 (Umhlanga), and 36 (Durban North) in eThekwini.

The MKP is contesting two out of the three wards in eThekwini and both wards in Ray Nkonyeni. In eThekwini, the ANC is contesting all three, as is the DA.

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