The former health minister has struggled to build a solid campaign for a decade now — and the ‘step aside’ rule works solidly in Ramaphosa’s favour, writes msmkokeli.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is cruising to a second term as head of the ANC.
Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal should be next. Gauteng is complex and KZN downright complicated — and that’s Ramaphosa’s biggest headache. KZN will send the biggest voting delegation to the policy conference in June or July, and to the elective conference in December. Mkhize was chair of the ANC in KZN until he was promoted to the national role of party treasurer-general in December 2012. This was the beginning of the trend where provincial barons were moved into the ANC national leadership. Five years later, two other provincial kingpins, David Mabuza and Ace Magashule, became the ANC’s second- and third-in-command.
The Mkhize of 2022 is not the Mkhize of 2012. Back then, he could act as an influential figure, to whom the likes of Jacob Zuma could listen. Mkhize’s potential votes would likely come from the radical economic transformation group, effectively the remnants of the Zuma’s former camp.
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