The ANC’s warring factions in KwaZulu-Natal say they are ready to talk unity to avoid a prolonged stalemate in the province.The party leadership in KwaZulu-Natal has been in a state of unease after a full bench of the Pietermaritzburg High Court nullified the 2015 provincial elective conference and the provincial executive committee (PEC) led by ANC provincial chair Sihle Zikalala. Early this week, former KwaZulu-Natal economic development MEC Mike Mabuyakhulu, also a provincial co-ordinator for the Cyril Ramaphosa campaign, told journalists that they had formed a task team to negotiate with their counterparts in the "unlawful" PEC."We want to talk to comrades as comrades. We want to talk unity in the true sense of the word," he said.Spokesperson for the pro-Ramaphosa group, Sthembiso Mshengu, told Business Day on Wednesday that the task team, headed by Mabuyakhulu, had phoned members of the PEC seeking a meeting to "find each other as comrades"."It is our own initiative, besides ef...
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