Dlamini-Zuma appears at PGC and surprises delegates with speech
Dlamini-Zuma was asked to speak by KZN chair Sihle Zikalala‚ who said he was doing so because she was the only senior cadre and elder present
ANC presidential hopeful Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma made an appearance at the party’s KwaZulu-Natal provincial general council, which nominated her, and then went on to address it, leaving the supporters of her main rival baffled.
Spokesman for party deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa’s supporters, Sithembiso Mshengu, expressed concern, saying “it’s a bit unprecedented”. Some of Ramaphosa’s supporters did not return for the second day of the provincial conference following the announcement of the nominations on Monday night. “We all know why we came here; we came to be witnesses of the nomination processes and everything else is just a sideshow. That’s the reality of such provincial general councils‚” Mshengu said. While President Jacob Zuma was widely expected to deliver a closing message to the provincial general council‚ it was instead Dlamini-Zuma who made a surprise appearance to address the gathering...
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