{"id":179029,"date":"2017-06-13T16:52:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=179029"},"modified":"2017-06-13T16:56:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T14:56:40","slug":"ancyl-officially-back-dlamini-zuma-to-become-next-president-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/179029\/ancyl-officially-back-dlamini-zuma-to-become-next-president-report\/","title":{"rendered":"ANCYL officially backs Dlamini-Zuma to become next president: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ANCYL will back Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, former chair of the African Union and President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s ex-wife, to be the party&#8217;s next leader, according to a report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/commoditiesNews\/idAFL8N1JA3VS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, the Youth League also endorsed Zuma loyalists for other top ANC positions, including the ANC&#8217;s leader of Mpumalanga province David Mabuza for deputy president and the party&#8217;s head of Free State province Ace Magashule for secretary general.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amongst the leadership qualities we are looking for is an uncompromising commitment to &#8216;radical economic transformation&#8217;,&#8221; the youth league said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They must expand economic participation to the majority of our people by breaking the stranglehold of white monopoly capital.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alongside its official nominations, the ANCYL also continued calls for the redistributing of land from white elites to the black majority without compensation, free education, improving healthcare and the launching of a state bank to improve infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Youth League joins the ANC Women&#8217;s League, the party&#8217;s MK military veterans and Zuma himself in endorsing Dlamini-Zuma ahead of a leadership contest in December where her main opponent is likely to be Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected that a new party leader will be officially nominated at the ANC&#8217;s national conference in December.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/177635\/pro-zuma-anc-mps-go-rogue-on-state-capture-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pro-Zuma ANC MPs go rogue on state capture: report<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ANCYL will back Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, former chair of the African Union and President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s ex-wife, to be the party&#8217;s next leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":110955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[25,3482],"class_list":["post-179029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-reuters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179029","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=179029"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179045,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179029\/revisions\/179045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}