Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

Five top office-bearers (as above minus Deputy Secretary General Mtintso) 15 elected members and three ex-officio members - Winnie Mandela (Women's League) Malusi Gigaba (Youth League) and Nelson Mandela...

But the main point is that all members except Lekota and Winnie Mandela are indirectly beholden to Mbeki for their membership...

Relations with Pretoria have been further damaged because Chiluba helped Fred Bridgland a British journalist with a book about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's misspent years...

The party post is hotly contested with four candidates in the field: * Jacob Zuma ANC head of intelligence in the mid-1980s is now ANC National Chairperson and leader of the party in kwaZulu-Natal where the ANC has nominated him for its deputy presidency and oddly he is said to enjoy the tacit support of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's ANC Women's League...

In the past two years it has stirred up resentment by intervening in provincial affairs ousting Lekota as Free State Premier resisting moves in the Northern Province to replace Premier Ngoako Ramathlodi trying to prevent Winnie Mandela from being re-elected ANCWL President and this month trying to impose Amos Masondo (SACP) as Gauteng Premier to succeed Tokyo Sexwale who fell foul of Mbeki and took refuge in the business world...

At the height of their power in early 1995 the populists led by Winnie Mandela and Bantu Holomisa held two ministerial portfolios and wielded substantial influence in the party (having won overwhelming support at the party congress)...

Even the usually forthright Winnie Madikizela-Mandela declined to comment on Holomisa's expulsion until it had been discussed by the ANC National Executive...

It was Winnie Mandela's Women's League said a case of 'too much truth'...