The IFP has won the highly contested by-elections in 3 of 6 wards in the Umzumbe Municipality ,near Port Shepstone, on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast. After the by-elections, the previously ANC controlled municipality is now a hung council, with the ANC and IFP both holding 17 seats. In by-elections in other KwaZulu-Natal municipalities, the IFP took a ward from AbantoBathu Congress in the Umvoti municipality, and it took a ward from the ANC at Mthonjaneni. In Newcastle the DA won a ward from the ANC, and in Umzimkhulu the ANC retained its ward. Sakina Kamwendo spoke to SABC News specialist researcher, Maswele Ralebona