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The ANC's fierce leadership contest

Cyril Ramaphosa has led South Africa since 2018, when he pushed out Jacob Zuma, and the president hopes to secure a second term as head of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) following the party's internal election in December 2022. But the ANC is torn by warring factions which are all jockeying for position. Allies of the former president, who is currently being prosecuted, haven't said their last word. With the 2024 general election looming, the leadership contest promises to be particularly fierce. [...]

ANC officials paint an uncompromising portrait of the party and its continued loss of voters, ringing alarm bells before the July policy conference and announcing a strategy for securing power in areas it still controls. [...] (380 words)

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Undermined by the scandal over Cyril Ramaphosa's farm, the African National Congress fears losing its majority at the next general election in two years' time. One wing of the party close to the president is pushing for a post-electoral alliance with its traditional opponent, the Democratic Alliance.

African National Congress (ANC) supporters at an election rally on 29 October 2021.

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In the face of Cyril Ramaphosa's popularity within the African National Congress, his former health minister Zweli Mkhize is banking on his native KwaZulu-Natal province to bolster his position, but various political and judicial obstacles stand in his way.

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