Cyril Ramaphosa will win at December conference, his KZN backers assure
The deputy president took the unprecedented move of announcing a team of ANC leaders he wants to work with‚ which has incurred the wrath of the ANC
Cyril Ramaphosa’s backers in KwaZulu-Natal are confident he will emerge victorious from the ANC’s December elective conference and that he and his preferred deputy,Naledi Pandor, will make a good combination. This is despite statistics released by the ANC provincial executive committee (PEC) late last week‚ indicating that former African Union Commission chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is leading the race in the biggest province. The PEC said Dlamini-Zuma had received the backing of 247 branches as opposed to Ramaphosa’s 69 nominations. But Ramaphosa’s campaigners had a different story to tell on Monday‚ saying the deputy president was sitting on 157 nominations as of Sunday.
The convener of Ramaphosa’s campaign in KwaZulu-Natal, Vukani Mdabe, and Sthembiso Mshengu‚ spokesperson for the applicants in the ongoing court saga between the so-called rebels and the PEC‚ told the media in Durban on Monday that Ramaphosa and Pandor would close the conference in December. "We love Cyril R...
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