Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

These will come to a head during a period when key SADR ally Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma stands down as AU Commission chair having worked to move Saharan self-determination up the agenda after years of neglect...

Until now Zuma's favoured successor his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has been seen as the front-runner (AC Vol 57 No 23 Starting the post-Zuma race)...

One of Zuma's biggest defenders he is lobbying for Zuma's ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to take over the party leadership next year...

The African Union Commission outgoing Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma strongly defended her ex-husband insiders told Africa Confidential...

The outgoing AU Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma suggested that the APRM be subsumed into the AU's Agenda 2063 its programme for devising a vision of what African development should look like by then...

Although Mantashe didn't name them we understand from other ANC sources that the contenders break down as follows: • Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Chairperson of the African Union Commission: due to return home in January to run for the ANC presidency; • Baleka Mbete Speaker of Parliament: unambiguously pro-Zuma; • Cyril Ramaphosa Deputy President: the successor favoured by the ruling hierarchy; backed by business and trying to broaden his appeal to grassroots; • Zweli Mkhize ANC Treasurer General: former Premier of KwaZulu-Natal province with the highest ANC membership; • Kgalema Motlanthe former interim President of the ANC and the country: lost to Zuma in a bid for the party presidency in 2012 and has become an outspoken critic of his rule; and • Lindiwe Sisulu Minister for Human Settlements: former Chief of Staff in Zuma's Presidency...

This is putting great strain on Zuma's strategy of bringing in Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma his ex-wife from her post as Chairwoman of the African Union Commission to run for the ANC's presidency next year and to be its presidential candidate in the 2019 general elections...

As regional factions tussle for influence finding a candidate to replace South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as Chairperson of the African Union Commission is proving a tortuous process...

The departure from Addis Ababa of South African AU Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is even more pleasing since she worked to raise the Sahara up the AU agenda: none of the candidates likely to replace her pose such a threat to Rabat...

If Zuma can hang on his favoured candidate his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma will have returned home from her position as Chairperson of the African Union Commission and would be able to run for the party leadership as a 'unifying' candidate...