Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

With barely two weeks to go before the crucial African National Congress elective conference on 16-20 December in Johannesburg supporters of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma claim they are leading the race for the ANC presidential nomination and that she will be crowned the party's President...

The battle between Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa for the leadership of the African National Congress now centres on the fate of Secretary General Gwede Mantashe who is clinging to his job...

SACP leaders think Ramaphosa commands widespread support among ANC members but fear he could still be denied the ANC Presidency through delegate manipulation vote-buying and membership inflation by supporters of President Jacob Zuma who is agitating to secure the succession for his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (AC Vol 58 No 13 Factional fireworks threaten party)...

It also included the President's ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who is his preferred candidate to succeed him as President of the ruling African National Congress in party elections due in six weeks' time...

His former wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's campaign is falling behind Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa's...

The campaign for Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to succeed her ex-husband as African National Congress leader which he is backing heavily may fail if the courts allow the challenges of dissident ANC members...

The battle between Ramaphosa and the President's favoured candidate Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma culminates at the ANC's elective conference in Gauteng in December...

If either move succeeds Zuma would spend the last few months of his presidency tied up in legal wrangles which could wreck his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's chances of succeeding him at the ANC's elective conference in December...

Ramaphosa needs to integrate powerful competing factional interests and persuade other ANC presidential contenders to throw in their lot with him if they are to beat Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma President Jacob Zuma's former wife and his chosen candidate to succeed him as party leader (AC Vol 58 No 1 Power struggle goes nuclear)...

President Jacob Zuma and his allies are widely seen as responsible for the fraudulent inflation of ANC numbers in the province to ensure the election of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to the presidency at December's national conference (AC Vol 58 No 8 New script in KwaZulu-Natal)...