PETER BRUCE: Who would want Mabuza as kingmaker?
My heart is with Ramaphosa to win the ANC’s elective conference but there is an army of thieves and looters out to stop him
I don’t know much about the premier of Mpumalanga, David “DD” Mabuza. There are no biographies about him and if there were honest ones about they would, I suspect, not be very long. Mabuza will, by all accounts, be the “kingmaker” at the ANC’s elective conference in just over two weeks’ time in Johannesburg. There, again by all reliable accounts, he will try to place Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in power as the ruling party’s new president. His price will be that he becomes her deputy and so, in any future government she may lead, he will be deputy president and if the notion that the party deputy succeeds the president sticks, he will become head of state in 2024 or 2029 at the latest. It is a long game but that’s how you play things in the ANC. It is a party and a government which believes it has all the time in the world. Last week the Mpumalanga ANC held its provincial general council and pronounced Dlamini-Zuma the winner. She got 123 votes to Cyril Ramaphosa’s 117. But Mabuza had in...
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