ANC presidential candidate Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said on Friday that you cannot stop helping people just because there is an internal party election. Dlamini-Zuma is seen as one of the frontrunners in the ANC’s succession race that will see the ANC elect its new president in December. Campaigning is, however, not yet allowed as nominations have not officially been opened by the ANC. Dlamini-Zuma told reporters in Hammanskraal that [the ANC] will not stop helping people just because detractors say it is electioneering. She was in Hammanskraal as part of the ANC Women’s League campaign, molo makhelwane (mass mobilisation) and to hand over a house with the self-proclaimed Prophet Paseka "Mboro" Motsoeneng. "The ANC was established to free South Africans from that system [of oppression], and many people who sacrificed their lives never even saw the election because that’s not what it is about," Dlamini-Zuma said. "It was about freedom for South Africans. Freedom for South Africans must...
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