Cracks have emerged in the President Cyril Ramaphosa faction as former allies Thembeka Mchunu and Sisisi Tolashe are expected to challenge each other for the position of ANC Women’s League president.
Insiders say Mchunu’s backers broke away from the Tolashe grouping after they refused to accommodate her as deputy president on their slate. Mchunu is the wife of water and sanitation minister Senzo Mchunu and Tolashe is the deputy minister in the presidency.
“Their problem is that they want to dictate who comes in and who doesn’t. They rejected the proposal we made that Thembeka must come in as Tolashe’s deputy and we didn’t take kindly to that,” said an insider. Another insider said there were meetings between the Mchunu and Dlamini’s lobbyists that went on until the early hours of the morning.This insider said the chequered relationship between Dlamini and Ramaphosa was not a factor in women’s league issues.osa],” said this insider. “This is now up to the women here at this conference and it looks like they will find each other”.
The problem however came when the Mchunu lobbyists told Dlamini she was too tainted to become the president of the women’s league.
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