Sihle Zikalala

He also appears to be delaying leadership elections in KwaZulu-Natal North-West Province and Free State whose leaders or most prominent figures are all Zuma sympathisers: Sihle Zikalala Supra Mahumapelo and Ace Magashule (AC Vol 58 No 21 Mabuza changes the race)...

Zuma had expected that his backers from KwaZulu-Natal like Sihle Zikalala and Nathi Mthethwa would come to his defence...

At today's (5 January) NEC meeting on Zuma's future Sihle Zikalala Chairman of the ANC in KwaZulu-Natal says his allies will block any move to push Zuma out before the 2019 national elections...

The ruling effectively disbanded the provincial structure led by chairman Sihle Zikalala a close ally of President Jacob Zuma...

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...

Mchunu had just lost a disputed provincial chairmanship election to pro-Zuma candidate Sihle Zikalala (AC Vol 57 No 23 Starting the post-Zuma race & Vol 57 No 25 The numbers game next year)...

By a tiny margin Mchunu lost the ANC's KZN provincial leadership to the pro-Zuma slate headed by Sihle Zikalala...

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...

Sabelo is part of the KwaZulu-Natal inner circle which includes the party's provincial Chairperson Sihle Zikalala...

It is believed that they are outgoing councillors who were isolated after siding with Mchunu in his losing fight against ANC provincial Chairman Sihle Zikalala...