The party is also using former KZN provincial chair and former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize as well as the disgraced former ANC eThekwini mayor Zandile Gumede who has been charged with corruption as campaigners (AC Vol 63 No 8 Ramaphosa heading for second term & Vol 60 No 21 'Dump Cyril' move in KZN)...

Former ANC provincial chair and health minister Zweli Mkhize has taken a lead role in its KZN campaign...

We hear that Mashatile's team has contacted the camp of KZN heavyweight Zweli Mkhize for help but after Mashatile's home province of Gauteng went back on its promise to vote for Mkhize as their preferred presidential candidate in December there is some reluctance to assist...

Mashatile did not take sides in the leadership contest between Ramaphosa and Zweli Mkhize...

A surprise appointment as head of the social transformation committee is former Health Minister Zweli Mkhize who lost out to Ramaphosa for the ANC presidency in December (AC Vol 63 No 25 President's fate rests with party)...

In spite of some last minute ructions it looks a matter of time before Paul Mashatile who outsmarted the Cyril Ramaphosa and Zweli Mkhize camps at the African National Congress's elective conference in December is sworn in as Deputy President (AC Vol 63 No 25 elective conference President's fate rests with party)...

Sisulu walked out before the vote and presidential candidate Zweli Mkhize was absent...

He had won 2 037 nominations for the ANC presidency easily beating his former health minister Zweli Mkhize who got 916...