Edward Senzo Mchunu

Music stopsSimilar difficulties attend the Ramaphosa group in its quest for adequate berths for two other influential ANC leaders: Paul Mashatile the current Gauteng Provincial Chairman and Senzo Mchunu the former ANC KZN Premier...

In November 2015 the pro-Ramaphosa former KZN Chairman Senzo Mchunu lost the provincial ANC leadership in controversial circumstances and by a tiny margin to his pro-Zuma rival Sihle Zikalala...

That came a month after he had forced the pro-Ramaphosa KZN Premier Edward Senzo Mchunu to resign for supposedly plotting against his leadership...

Ramaphosa's supporters who have been campaigning in the province this month include former Premier Edward Senzo Mchunu who was ousted by a pro-Zuma candidate Sihle Zikalala in a controversial poll earlier in the year...

Former Youth league leader Sihle Zikalala toppled former provincial Premier Senzo Mchunu at the provincial conference a year ago...

The ANC is facing an internal revolt there with supporters of ousted Premier Edward Senzo Mchunu contesting the municipal polls as independents...

8 November: In a boost to the Zuma succession plan pro-Zuma candidate for the ANC provincial chair of KwaZulu-Natal Sihle Zikalala narrowly beats the incumbent Edward Senzo Mchunu...

He has also served under the man Zikalala defeated at the conference Senzo Mchunu...

Senzo Mchunu remains Premier of the province...

Minutes after his victory Zikalala promised 'unity' and pledged there would be no purges or attempts to replace Senzo Mchunu as Premier...

The forces arrayed against Senzo Mchunu do not need push him aside because neither he nor the other four members of his slate were elected to the provincial executive which leaves him politically isolated and vulnerable...

President Zuma is likely now to take a hand in deciding who remains in power in the province and Zikalala will probably be appointed to the provincial cabinet implicitly challenging Senzo Mchunu...

The reason for Senzo Mchunu's failure at the conference was his support for Ramaphosa and his close ties to ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe insiders said...

The province is split into two factions; one led by former National Police Commissioner and now Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries Bheki Cele who is close to the KZN Premier Senzo Mchunu and the other led by Provincial Secretary Zikalala...

Nxumalo is close to the ANC KZN Chairman Edward Senzo Mchunu who is also pro-Ramaphosa (AC Vol 55 No 24 The succession war has begun)...