ANC top six tackle KwaZulu-Natal crisis
Party wracked by factional fighting; Province split over candidates for elective conference
The ANC’s top six leaders were locked in meetings on Monday night to solve the impasse between warring factions in KwaZulu-Natal. The province — the party’s largest — is wracked by factional fighting spurred by the forthcoming national conference to elect a successor to Jacob Zuma. The nomination process opened last weekend. The province is largely split between supporters of deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa and those backing Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. KwaZulu-Natal was plunged into crisis after the 2015 election of its Zuma-aligned leadership was recently declared unlawful by the High Court in Pietermaritzburg, just months before the ANC’s national conference. The Zuma faction wants the judgment to be appealed, while their opponents in the national executive committee want KwaZulu-Natal placed under a provincial task team represented by both factions. Zuma ally and former ANC KwaZulu-Natal chairman Sihle Zikalala, as well as his opponent and former chairman Senzo Mchunu, were not avai...
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