Sandile Zungu (Gwabs)

Two Zuma loyalists – incumbent KZN premier Sihle Zikalala and billionaire challenger Sandile Zungu – are also vying to lead the province...

Two Zuma loyalists – incumbent KZN premier Sihle Zikalala and billionaire challenger Sandile Zungu – are also vying to lead the province...

In what is believed to be the country's first 'online rally' more than 300 ANC veterans business and church leaders and anti-corruption activists took part in a spirited meeting on 21 August addressed by former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela former ANC Cabinet Minister Derek Hanekom respected anti-apartheid church leader and former head of the presidency under Thabo Mbeki the Reverend Frank Chikane and leading organised business leader Sandile Zungu of the Black Business Council...

This group includes Robert Gumede Vivian Reddy Sandile 'Gwabs' Zungu the Independent News and Media baron Iqbal Survé and the Gupta brothers (Ajay Atul and Rajesh) who have massive influence with Zuma and benefit from extensive patronage in return...

The Black Management Forum is a vocal supporter of Zuma and its leading members include Sandile Zungu one of his business associates...

When a recent black economic empowerment (BEE) deal gave Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane Zuma and his close ally Sandile Zungu outrageously lucrative business terms Vavi said that South Africa had become ‘a country where the first family feeds first followed by other well connected elites’...

Another BEE beneficiary is Sandile Zungu an empowerment luminary once touted as future Director-General in the Presidency...

Pressure for tough economic diplomacy will come from the business elite such as mining magnate Tokyo Sexwale (now Human Settlements Minister) Sandile Zungu (see Who's Who) Patrice Motsepe and Vivian Reddy...

He is considering replacing another Mbeki-ally Frank Chikane with the black economic empowerment oligarch Sandile Zungu as Director General in the Presidency...

The event was organised by close allies of Zuma including Zico Chairman Sandile Zungu Sello Rasethaba of Matodzi Resources and billionaire Robert Gumede the Chairman of GijimaAst...