Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

Zuma's first preference for party president we hear is his former wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who chairs the African Union Commission...

The U-turn came we hear after Khartoum officials pressured AU chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who then passed the issue to the AU Peace and Security Council...

On 16 March though AU Commission Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma declared 'The Chairperson wishes to state categorically that the so-called “report” that is said to have been leaked is NOT that of the Commission of Inquiry'...

Other probable contenders include Jean-Baptiste Natama aka Toubo Tanam the current Chief of Staff of the African Union Commission Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and previously with the African Peer Review Mechanism (and also ex-Darfur); and Yacouba Ouédraogo a colonel and former Sports Minister who has a small but loud following...

Zuma himself wants either his former wife African Union Commission Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma or Parliament Speaker Baleka Mbete to succeed him...

Now pressure is mounting on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon who insists ending Sudan's violence is top priority and the AU Commission Chairwoman Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who says women's and children's rights are a principal aim...

Ramaphosa is likely to face opposition from the powerful KwaZulu-Natal ANC which could favour one of its own such as Zuma's ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma...

Nevertheless he has support from a broad spectrum of ANC constituencies and is ahead of other possible successors Among these are African Union Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma ambitious Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe Sport and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula and the Arts and Culture (formerly Police) Minister Nathi Mthethwa...

Nigeria did not back Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for African Union leader...

He was replaced by Patrick Dlamini a relative of Zuma's ex-wife African Union Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma...