{"id":215429,"date":"2017-12-08T07:42:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T05:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=215429"},"modified":"2017-12-08T07:42:14","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T05:42:14","slug":"unity-votes-to-be-counted-in-favour-of-dlamini-zuma-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/215429\/unity-votes-to-be-counted-in-favour-of-dlamini-zuma-report\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Unity&#8221; votes to be counted in favour of Dlamini-Zuma: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The members of the ANC&#8217;s Mpumalanga branch which voted in favour of unity\u00a0have been directed by the ANC provincial leadership to support Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesslive.co.za\/bd\/politics\/2017-12-08-mpumalanga-branches-anc-unity-ballots-count-as-dlamini-zuma-votes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BusinessDay<\/a><\/strong>, the 223 nominations for a position of unity should now be read as backing for Dlamini-Zuma\u2019s campaign for the party presidency &#8211; eating into the substantial lead accrued by her main opposition, Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa\u2019s tally of branch nominations stood at 1,860 to Dlamini-Zuma\u2019s 1,358. If the 223 nominations for \u201cunity\u201d were added to her tally and she got all 223 nominations, hers would rise to 1,581.<\/p>\n<p>It is not known\u00a0whether this instruction came from chairman David Mabuza or from provincial leaders who are known to be Dlamini-Zuma backers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>December conference<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa won endorsement from most African National Congress branches to succeed president Jacob Zuma as ruling party leader, giving him an edge \u2013 but not a guarantee of victory \u2013 in this month\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>The branches will account for 90% of the 5,240 voting delegates at the ANC\u2019s national elective conference that\u2019s due to start Dec. 16, while the rest will come from the party\u2019s leadership structures and youth, women and military veterans leagues.<\/p>\n<p>The ANC\u2019s new leader will be its presidential candidate in the 2019 elections, which will bring an end to Zuma\u2019s second term.<\/p>\n<p>While the branch nomination numbers are the best available indicator of who\u2019s likely to win, they aren\u2019t conclusive because some bigger branches can have more than one delegate and there\u2019s no guarantee delegates will vote as instructed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/214653\/ramaphosa-wins-most-endorsements-in-anc-leadership-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ramaphosa wins most endorsements in ANC leadership race<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a number of members voted for a &#8220;unity&#8221; candidate, senior members in the ANC&#8217;s Mpumalanga branch have ordered that they instead be counted for Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":158425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1875,26],"class_list":["post-215429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-anc","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215429","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=215429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215445,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215429\/revisions\/215445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}