{"id":150455,"date":"2017-01-13T08:51:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T06:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=150455"},"modified":"2017-01-13T09:32:30","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T07:32:30","slug":"these-could-be-the-next-leaders-of-the-anc-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/150455\/these-could-be-the-next-leaders-of-the-anc-report\/","title":{"rendered":"These could be the next leaders of the ANC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least three election slates for the leadership roles of the ANC are doing the rounds &#8211; though the party would prefer if they didn&#8217;t exist at all.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.za\/2017\/01\/12\/here-are-the-succession-slates-the-anc-is-not-supposed-to-have\/?utm_hp_ref=za-homepage\">According to the Huffington Post SA<\/a><\/strong>, which has seen messages and strings of the lists, the three slates contain the expected division between deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa- and AU chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma-led groupings, but also purport to reveal the ANC Youth League&#8217;s &#8220;surprise&#8221; nomination.<\/p>\n<p>The first set of slates was published in the Gupta-owned New Age newspapers earlier this week, which was quickly dismissed and condemned by the ANC.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Huffinton Post reports that new slates are doing the rounds, appearing in the form of instant messages &#8211; <strong>all of which are unofficial<\/strong> &#8211; circulated among factions for discussion.<\/p>\n<p>These are the reported slates:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Team Ramaphosa<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_103707\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cyril-Ramaphosa-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103707\" class=\"size-full wp-image-103707\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cyril-Ramaphosa-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cyril-Ramaphosa-2.png 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cyril-Ramaphosa-2-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy president, Cyril Ramaphosa<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>President<\/strong> &#8211; Cyril Ramaphosa<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deputy<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Jeff Radebe<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not specified<\/strong>:\u00a0Thandi Modise,\u00a0Zweli Mkhize<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first slate is incomplete, with deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa in the top job, and minister in the presidency Jeff Radebe as his deputy.<\/p>\n<p>A surprising mention in the slate is that of ANC treasurer Zweli Mkhize, who has been seen as a rather neutral and unifying element in the party.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Team Dlamini-Zuma<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_110955\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dlamini-Zuma.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110955\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110955\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dlamini-Zuma.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dlamini-Zuma.png 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Dlamini-Zuma-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AU chairperson, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>President<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deputy<\/strong> &#8211; Ace Magashule<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secretary General<\/strong> &#8211; Supra Mahumapelo<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Chairperson<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0David Mabuza<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The second slate is also incomplete; it lists the so-called &#8216;premier league&#8217;, who would all make up the top positions in the party, with AU chair Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as president, the Huffington Post SA reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/149617\/anc-womens-league-jumped-the-gun-in-supporting-dlamini-zuma-anc\/\">The ANC Women&#8217;s league has already endorsed Dlamini-Zuma as president<\/a><\/strong>, and has also called for more women to be represented in the top six. However this was not represented in this slate.<\/p>\n<p>It has been long speculated that Dlamini-Zuma is the preferred candidate of president Jacob Zuma and his supporters within the party &#8211; a position further entrenched by recent comments from Zuma that the ANC is ready for a female leader.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Team Magashule<\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_144959\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ace-Magashule.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144959\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144959\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ace-Magashule.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ace-Magashule.png 600w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Ace-Magashule-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-144959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free State premier, Ace Magashule<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>President<\/strong> &#8211; Ace Magashule<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deputy<\/strong> &#8211; Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secretary General<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Sihle Zikalala<\/li>\n<li><strong>Deputy SG<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Nomvula Mokonyane<\/li>\n<li><strong>Treasurer<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0Maite Nkoana-Mashabane<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Chairperson<\/strong> &#8211; David Mabuza<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ANC Youth League, while not revealing its preferred candidate, has said that its preferred candidate would be a &#8216;surprise&#8217; and would rock South African politics, pushing a more radical agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The third slate seen by the Huffington Post SA purports to reveal this mystery candidate as\u00a0Free State premier Ace Magashule, with Dlamini-Zuma as his deputy. The messages circulating with this slate reportedly call it a &#8220;compromise&#8221; list.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>ANC dismisses slate politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ANC spokesperson Zizi Kodwa this week dismissed the slates, saying they were not official and were coming from various leagues and factions in the party.<\/p>\n<p>The party itself has spoken out on a number occasions against so-called &#8216;slate politics&#8217;, saying that it was divisive and against the party&#8217;s policies.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary general Gwede Mantashe has criticised the ANC Women&#8217;s League and Cosatu for having endorsed candidates (Dlamini-Zuma and Ramaphosa, respectively), saying that such talk was premature and fueled divisions at a time the party was calling for unity.<\/p>\n<p>President Zuma, too, has weighed in on succession talk, saying that it was still too early to be discussing who would take over his position.<\/p>\n<p>But despite trying to play down anyone taking sides, both Zuma and Mantashe have fueled speculation themselves.<\/p>\n<p>On separate occasions, the two party leads made it clear that there was no tradition of a deputy president succeeding the president at elective conferences, stymieing Ramaphosa supporters&#8217; hopes of a clear line to the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>While Mantashe said that the jump from deputy to president was open to debate &#8211; and that the debate must be had openly &#8211; Zuma went on a different line, and, on public radio, spoke extensively\u00a0about the ANC&#8217;s readiness for a female leader.<\/p>\n<p>This was seen by many as a tacit endorsement for Dlamini-Zuma.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC will hold its elective conference in December 2017, but will only open up the succession debate after its consultative and policy conferencing around the middle of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts expect a full picture of the candidates who will be contesting the leadership of the party by October 2017.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to ANC Women\u2019s League jumped the gun in supporting Dlamini-Zuma: ANC\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/149617\/anc-womens-league-jumped-the-gun-in-supporting-dlamini-zuma-anc\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">ANC Women\u2019s League jumped the gun in supporting Dlamini-Zuma: ANC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least three election slates for the leadership roles of the ANC are doing the rounds, the Huffington Post SA reports &#8211; though the party would prefer it if they didn&#8217;t exist at all<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":149211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-150455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150471,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150455\/revisions\/150471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}