The KwaZulu-Natal ANC provincial leadership is expected to decide on the fate of prominent South African Communist Party leader and former KwaZulu-Natal Education MEC Peggy Nkonyeni. Nkonyeni was one of the former KZN MECs who were made technically unemployed after the former KZN Premier Senzo Mchunu was recalled in May 2016. That was shortly after his bid for re-election as chairperson of the ANC in KZN was defeated by Sihle Zikalala at the November 2015 ANC provincial conference. Now Nkonyeni’s name tops the list of three people that the ANC in the Lower South Coast Region, Nkonyeni’s home base, wants to be appointed as mayor of Port Shepstone-based Ugu District Municipality. The position of the mayor became vacant in December 2016 when Tolomane Mnyayiza died after a short illness. Apart from being Ugu District mayor, Mnyayiza was also the ANC’s Lower South Coast regional chairperson. As she holds no formal position in the ANC, Nkonyeni is also eligible to enter the race to lead t...
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