Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu

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)...

Ramaphosa has to think hard about Lindiwe Sisulu: she is ANC aristocracy but made little impression in international affairs or her current post as Minister of Human Settlements...

Ramaphosa is also considering firing Housing Minister Lindiwe Sisulu one of his rivals during the 2017 ANC presidential race and who is likely to stand again positioning herself as a compromise candidate if the Magashule/Zuma faction ousts Ramaphosa at next year's ANC national elective conference...

President Ramaphosa dispatched foreign minister Lindiwe Sisulu in April 2019 to assure his counterpart that he was not behind this politicking in Botswana...

PushbackRamaphosa who has faced ridicule in some quarters over the reinstatement of the ANC officials is also facing pushback from some of his senior ministers on the National Coronavirus Command Council: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma the Minister of Local Government and Traditional Affairs the Police Minister Bheki Cele and Lindiwe Sisulu the Minister of Human Settlements who is seen as a possible challenger to Ramaphosa for the ANC leadership in 2024...

This follows recent allegations of endemic corruption in cabinet minister Lindiwe Sisulu's department of Human Settlements Water and Sanitation...

The most likely candidates to replace him are International Relations Minister Lindiwe Sisulu or the former wife of former President Jacob Zuma Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who as a senior minister in the Presidency has been supportive of Ramaphosa...

After the Sunday Times report the diplomats involved were hauled in by Foreign Minister Lindiwe Sisulu  who accused them of breaching protocol by writing directly to the President rather than going through her ministry...

His South African counterpart Lindiwe Sisulu also issued a statement withdrawing the demand for a recount...

Minister of International Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu confirmed at the UN General Assembly last month that South Africa had applied to the UAE for the Guptas' return to face trial...