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Creating instability? Former state security minister David Mahlobo, suspended ANC secretary general Ace Magashule and former president Jacob Zuma are all part of the so-called radical economic transformation faction in the party. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ACE MAGASHULE

How Zuma’s 15-month sentence will affect this weekend’s NEC meeting

This Constitutional Court ruling comes at an inconvenient time for the Ramaphosa faction. Magashule’s strength is waning, but Zuma still wields significant support

  • Lizeka Tandwa
7 min read
Do as I say, not as I do: The ANC launch of its 2019 elections manifesto in Durban in January last year. The party is finding it difficult to implement its clean-up resolutions. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)
ANC

ANC elective conferences face a second postponement

Covid-19 puts the brakes on the governing party again, as 20 regional and provincial elective conferences need to be rescheduled

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read