Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who was narrowly defeated by Ramaphosa for the leadership in 2017 could also make a pitch for the post...

Ramaphosa narrowly beat Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Jacob Zuma's ex-wife for ANC president at the elective conference in 2017 while Lindiwe Sisulu who has had more senior cabinet posts than any other woman in the ANC initially challenged Ramaphosa before withdrawing (AC Vol 59 No 1 Pushing Zuma to the exit & Vol 62 No 10 Magashule overplays his hand)...

Mkhize challenged Ramaphosa in the early stages of the leadership election in 2017 and later withdrew and deferred to Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as the main challenger...

Or he could pick his rival for the presidency at the 2017 elective conference Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma...

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs who narrowly lost to Ramaphosa in the ANC leadership contest has contradicted the President within the cabinet and in public leading him to back down on his own policies...

The finance minister has clashed fiercely with ANC cabinet colleagues over the government's Covid-19 strategy especially with Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma over her decision to ban alcohol and tobacco sales for several months during the lockdown periods our sources say...

Public sector unions now form the largest section of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and were among the biggest supporters of Ramaphosa in his battle for leadership of the ANC against Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in 2017...

Minister of Cooperative Governance and former Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma an ex-wife of Zuma's was Ramaphosa's closest rival...

The two favourites are Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor and Minister in the Presidency Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who has been extending her authority during the pandemic...

But on a number of contentious issues including the ban on the sale of cigarettes and alcohol it has been Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who is the Minister in the Presidency and the head of the government's National Coronavirus Command Council who has been making the decisions...

In early 2017 when then AU chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma announced that she would not stand for a second term Kenya nominated Mohamed an hour before the deadline...