Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

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...

Minister of Co-operative Government and Traditional Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is also emerging as a potential successor thanks to the executive powers she has within the National Coronavirus Command Council under the state of 'national disaster' declared on 15 March (AC Vol 61 No 11 Cyril's lockdown limits)...

Rival's powerHeading the informal coalition of securocrats and 'micro-fiddlers' is Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma ex-wife of disgraced former President Jacob Zuma and the main political rival of Ramaphosa who narrowly beat her for the leadership of the African National Congress in December 2017 (AC Vol 59 No 1 Pushing Zuma to the exit)...

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma the co-operative governance minister and a former health minister and renowned anti-smoking campaigner has supported current Health Minister Zweli Mkhize in maintaining that the ban is justified because of the damage Covid-19 causes to the lungs...

The Zuma faction is understood to be placing their hopes in David Mabuza deputy president of the ANC and South Africa to take over from Ramaphosa and then for Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma former African Union chair and Zuma's ex-wife to take over from Mabuza...

Chihombori was appointed by Moussa Faki's predecessor as AU Commission Chair South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to succeed the Tanzanian politician Amina Salum Ali who had held the Washington DC post since 2007...

The Western Cape PTT also includes the respected former head of the police investigating unit the Hawks Anwa  Dramat and other old party hands including the former head of justice in the province Hishaam Mohamed and the former provincial secretary Songezo Mjongile a supporter of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's leadership bid and a Magashule supporter...

The appeal to the wealthy elite was based on preventing Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma the former chair of the African Union and Zuma's ex-wife becoming leader of the ANC...

The strategy involved at least temporarily side-lining Mabuza by replacing him with Minister in the Presidency Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who fought Ramaphosa for the ANC leadership but has been supportive of Ramaphosa's leadership and declared that she would gratefully carry out any task she was given...

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...