‘Worst-case scenario’ is if ANC conference does not take place, BLSA says
Business Leadership SA (BLSA) fears the country will be stuck in political limbo if infighting causes the ANC’s elective conference in December not to go ahead. The race to succeed Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC is widely seen as a head-to-head contest between Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, and Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the former chairperson of the African Union Commission. The battle has grown fractious and the ANC is working to resolve its internal differences to ensure the conference goes ahead as planned and avoid a repetition of previous splits that spawned three opposition parties, treasurer-general Zweli Mkhize, who is also a candidate, said on October 10. The task of uniting the ANC after the damage to the party’s image caused by Zuma’s scandal-ridden presidency is daunting. A bitter split in KwaZulu-Natal has effectively left the province without a party leadership, and allies such as union federation Cosatu and the SACP are openly calling for the President to go. The ec...
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