Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma

Trying to force him out with a vote at the National Executive Committee would worsen splits between Ramaphosa supporters and those backing Zuma and his former wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who lost the ANC presidential race...

A draft list of names for a 'unity cabinet' is circulating among Ramaphosa's allies and those of Zuma and the defeated ANC presidential candidate Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma...

Baleka Mbete Speaker of the National Parliament who switched sides to back Ramaphosa would be Minister of Women's Affairs; Lindiwe Sisulu Human Settlements Minister who backed Ramaphosa would become Minister for International Relations; Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma defeated by Ramaphosa for the ANC Presidency would get the Social Development portfolio...

The epic struggle between Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and current Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa for the leadership – some say the soul – of the governing African National Congress will be decided between 16 and 20 December in the Nasrec stadium outside Soweto...

Ramaphosa was leading the provincial branch vote by 1 861 provincial branch votes to Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's 1 309 as Africa Confidential went to press...

With barely two weeks to go before the crucial African National Congress elective conference on 16-20 December in Johannesburg supporters of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma claim they are leading the race for the ANC presidential nomination and that she will be crowned the party's President...

The battle between Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Cyril Ramaphosa for the leadership of the African National Congress now centres on the fate of Secretary General Gwede Mantashe who is clinging to his job...

SACP leaders think Ramaphosa commands widespread support among ANC members but fear he could still be denied the ANC Presidency through delegate manipulation vote-buying and membership inflation by supporters of President Jacob Zuma who is agitating to secure the succession for his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (AC Vol 58 No 13 Factional fireworks threaten party)...

It also included the President's ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma who is his preferred candidate to succeed him as President of the ruling African National Congress in party elections due in six weeks' time...

His former wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's campaign is falling behind Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa's...

The campaign for Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to succeed her ex-husband as African National Congress leader which he is backing heavily may fail if the courts allow the challenges of dissident ANC members...

The battle between Ramaphosa and the President's favoured candidate Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma culminates at the ANC's elective conference in Gauteng in December...

If either move succeeds Zuma would spend the last few months of his presidency tied up in legal wrangles which could wreck his ex-wife Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma's chances of succeeding him at the ANC's elective conference in December...