Mathekga said Ramaphosa’s opponents would automatically back the son, but doubted if ANC branches would accept him – except structures aligned to Zuma in KwaZulu-Natal.
With all his baggage as a business associate of the controversial Guptas, jailed former president Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane wants to be the president of the ANC and the country – a move that experts describe as “desperate” and “populist”. Perhaps sensing that Zuma’s political heir apparent, Ace Magashule, could be in jail by the next ANC conference in 2022, the Zuma faction embarked on flying a kite – using a weak candidate.
Zuma introduced his son at various events – first at his previous corruption trial in Pietermaritzburg and later when he addressed a gathering of his supporters outside the gate of his Nkandla homestead in July.The ANC required one to be a member for at least five years before being elected to office or be deployed from the party alliance partners, Cosatu and the SA Communist Party. But Duduzane had not served on any ANC structures or alliance allies. He merely rode on his father’s legacy.
Hanyane said politics did not function the way Duduzane wished because even in America, artist Kanye West’s stunt to bid for the White House fell flat. Duduzane mistakenly assumed he would be the heir apparent to his father.
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