ANC KwaZulu-Natal deputy provincial chairman and MEC for transport, community safety and liaison Willies Mchunu has described their coalition with the National Freedom Party as the "most horrible decision".

Mchunu also leads the ANC's five-a-side committee responsible for attending to any situations where the two parties clash.

The ANC and NFP went into cooperation after last year's May 18 local government elections, which resulted in 19 hung municipalities. But since the agreement there have been more problems than cohesion in many of the municipalities in which councillors from both parties are often at each other's throats over positions that are viewed as strategic.

Currently there are problems in uMtshezi, Mbabazane and Okhahlamba, where this agreement is likely to collapse.

"We must all strive to implement the decisions of the provincial executive committee to govern or co-govern with the NFP."

Mchunu said it was important for ANC leaders and members to work hard in their various regions to ensure that the party was not forced to enter into working arrangements with any political party.

"The ANC is the only organisation that can change people's lives. But we can only do so if we are in power in all municipalities," he said.

Last month during her party's first anniversary, NFP president Zanele Magwaza-Msibi enlightened her party members on why they formed a partnership with the ANC.

"After elections we found ourselves between the hardest rocks to choose a coalition between the IFP and ANC," she said.

"They are equal devils but we opted to work with the ANC."