Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

Parallel to the policy arguments and caucus meetings in Cape Town last week the two front-runners jostling to succeed Zuma as party President national Deputy President Ramaphosa and the former Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma have started their own not-so-discreet lobbying...

Failing that Zuma could wait until June when Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma having finished her role in the leadership transition at the Africa Union Commission would be available for assignment in South Africa – and be given the Finance portfolio...

Until the outgoing Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told the organisation's summit in Addis Ababa on 30 January that the United States' travel ban on seven countries with Muslim majorities presaged 'turbulent times' the continent's reaction to Donald Trump's presidency had been muted...

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma ends her term of office having disappointed many member states although she was congratulated for supporting the Economic Community of West African States' intervention in The Gambia which ushered Yahya Jammeh from power after he lost elections in December but refused to stand down...

Dlamini-Zuma's checkered legacy Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's defeat of the incumbent African Union Commission chairperson Gabonese politician Jean Ping in 2012 was a bitter fight involving strenuous lobbying behind the scenes by influential members...

Zuma is determined to secure the ANC presidency for his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and if he fails to offer himself for re-election as ANC President for another term...

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...