Mantashe fights the flames of ambition, but the leadership battle is on
It is going to be long year for ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe as he tries to put out a fire that is growing by the week. Over the weekend Mantashe had to call to order the ANC Women’s League for its open support of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to lead the ANC come December. But earlier in the week‚ some leaders within the provincial structures of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal threw the name of the current treasurer general‚ Zweli Mkhize‚ into the fray‚ throwing open the ruling party’s presidential race. On Wednesday‚ Mantashe took time again in Luthuli House to urge ANC structures to refrain from throwing names into the public domain‚ saying it was divisive. "When we deal with factionalism‚ we need to be more scientific. You don't declare that there shall be not factions and they disappear … We should minimise our engagement with things that destruct us and make us move out of the theme because they'll be a quite number of people who take initiatives that divide the ANC and many try bet...
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