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Chaos in Zuma’s heartland of KwaZulu Natal is one gunshot away
Bodyguards protecting senior ANC officials drew their weapons as a mob approached demanding access to a meeting to discuss the election of a new provincial leadership in Howick. The video, shot by TimesLive journalist Jeff Wicks, is spine-chilling evidence of how deep the divide is and how chaos is one gunshot away. It was just another day in the life of the ANC in KwaZulu Natal. But the news came as it was revealed that Jacob Zuma’s faction is planning to oust Cyril Ramaphosa from the presidency just three months after he was elected to the job in December. From the Sunday Times article: "Zuma loyalists... [may] split their votes in elections next year — voting for the ANC in the province but giving their national ballots to a party sympathetic to their cause should their plan to remove Ramaphosa fail." According to the report, that could be Andile Mngxitama’s Black First Land First. A new political party, the African Transformation Congress, has also been formed by a Zuma ally. Th...
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