The two factions that seem to have coalesced around ANC president Jacob Zuma and his deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa, present the party with two simple options: compromise or suffer significant losses in the 2019 election. This political reality appears to have galvanised the chairmen of the party’s largest provinces into holding bilateral and multilateral talks, which culminated in the Mbombela indaba hosted by Mpumalanga ANC chairman David Mabuza. It was attend by his Gauteng, North West and Free State counterparts, with KwaZulu-Natal represented by the former premier Senzo Mchunu. Having tasted the bitter fruit of the loss of political power in the Tshwane, Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela Bay local government elections, the ANC factions realise and accept that for their own self-preservation an uncontested single slate is the only way to forge unity. This approach could avoid the impasse that convoluted, dilatory and protracted court applications may impose on the party and result, for e...
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