After Zuma
Who are the six candidates vying to succeed Jacob Zuma as ANC leader?
Six candidates are bidding to succeed Jacob Zuma as the leader of the ANC next year, as the ruling party starts the process this weekend of choosing its next president, according secretary-general Gwede Mantashe. "There’s six people who have raised their hand that they want to be president" of the party, Mantashe said in an interview on Thursday in Johannesburg. "What we have agreed on is that they must debate openly." While the ANC suffered its worst performance in an election this year, its leader is likely to become the president of SA in 2019 as it still commands the majority of support in the country. The new leader will need to reach out to millions of ANC supporters who stayed away from the polls in municipal elections in August, after Zuma was implicated in a series of scandals and the economy skirted a second recession in seven years. The ANC has won every election since the end of apartheid in 1994. From this weekend, top party officials will start a "political education" ...
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