Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

Such a reshuffle could also see Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma appointed to the cabinet as a means of increasing her heft as a presidential candidate...

Two strategies Deputy President Ramaphosa who is seen as the main rival to Zuma's former wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in the race to succeed him insisted pointedly that there were two strategies for much-needed land reform: one was to change the constitution and the other was 'implementing what is in the constitution' (AC Vol 58 No 1 Power struggle goes nuclear)...

The prospect of Molefe becoming Finance Minister or even Deputy has brought the governing party almost to the point of open warfare and could even lead to a split led by the reformist Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's main rival for the succession...

Parallel to the policy arguments and caucus meetings in Cape Town last week the two front-runners jostling to succeed Zuma as party President national Deputy President Ramaphosa and the former Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma have started their own not-so-discreet lobbying...

Failing that Zuma could wait until June when Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma having finished her role in the leadership transition at the Africa Union Commission would be available for assignment in South Africa – and be given the Finance portfolio...

Until the outgoing Chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma told the organisation's summit in Addis Ababa on 30 January that the United States' travel ban on seven countries with Muslim majorities presaged 'turbulent times' the continent's reaction to Donald Trump's presidency had been muted...

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma ends her term of office having disappointed many member states although she was congratulated for supporting the Economic Community of West African States' intervention in The Gambia which ushered Yahya Jammeh from power after he lost elections in December but refused to stand down...

Dlamini-Zuma's checkered legacy Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's defeat of the incumbent African Union Commission chairperson Gabonese politician Jean Ping in 2012 was a bitter fight involving strenuous lobbying behind the scenes by influential members...

Zuma is determined to secure the ANC presidency for his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and if he fails to offer himself for re-election as ANC President for another term...

These will come to a head during a period when key SADR ally Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma stands down as AU Commission chair having worked to move Saharan self-determination up the agenda after years of neglect...

Until now Zuma's favoured successor his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has been seen as the front-runner (AC Vol 57 No 23 Starting the post-Zuma race)...

One of Zuma's biggest defenders he is lobbying for Zuma's ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to take over the party leadership next year...