Has the mighty, 104-year-old ANC split into two? With just over a week to go before the August 3 municipal elections, it seems to me that there are two ANCs: the ANC in Gauteng, and the ANC of President Jacob Zuma and the so-called Premier League.

They are running two different campaigns and using two different factions within the party to gain votes. Here is my evidence that there are two ANCs.On Saturday morning the ANC in Gauteng issued a media alert in which it invited journalists to cover party veterans accompanying Joburg mayoral candidate Parks Tau to Soweto. The veterans accompanying Tau and ANC Gauteng chairman Paul Mashatile were Mavuso Msimang and Tokyo Sexwale.Msimang? This is the man who, in April, stood up with other society luminaries and said: "I would like to say that my hope is that it's not too late for the leadership of the African National Congress to do the right thing and ask the president in everyone's interest to step down."Last week Tau paid a courtesy visit to former president Thabo Mbeki, a man who was humiliatingly and unceremoniously dumped by the Jacob Zuma-led ANC in 2008. Reports after the meeting indicated that Mbeki was receptive to Tau but was not keen to campaign for the Zuma-led ANC.Others are not so coy about associating themselves with Tau and Mashatile. In the past week we have seen former president Kgalema Motlanthe and Robben Island veteran Ahmed Kathrada standing up for the ANC in Gauteng.You will remember that Kathrada wrote an open letter earlier this year - following the Constitutional Court judgment on Nkandla declaring that Zuma had failed to "uphold, defend and respect the constitution as the supreme law" - in which he said that if he were Zuma he would step down.He asked: "Bluntly, if not arrogantly, in the face of such persistently widespread criticism, condemnation and demand, is it asking too much to express the hope that you will choose the correct way, [which] is gaining momentum, to consider stepping down?"What about Motlanthe, the man who challenged Zuma in 2012? In March he said: "[ANC leaders] say, 'Do as I say, not as I do' - and that is why the ANC will die."These are the people whom the ANC in Gauteng, particularly in Johannesburg, has called on to help it win the cities of Joburg and Tshwane.You can see their views reflected in the speeches of Premier David Makhura, Mashatile and Tau: they talk about the sanctity of our institutions of democracy, and about delivery of services.Listen carefully to the speeches of Makhura and you get the idea of a thoughtful young leader who is presidential material.Meanwhile, Jacob Zuma and the rest of his faction of the ANC - made up of provincial leaders from Mpumalanga, Free State, North West and KwaZulu-Natal - have been running a totally different campaign. It is based on exploiting the South African race divide and on our painful history. They hardly ever touch on service delivery or competence or the fight against corruption - their line is to warn voters that the opposition DA will bring apartheid backLast week in Tembisa, an area in which the EFF has faced horrific violence and has been harassed by the ANC, Zuma arrived with his bogeyman at the ready."The DA is the offspring of the oppressor; two white parties came together to form one. Where does a black person get the guts to associate with the oppressor?" he asked.Zuma was, of course, conveniently forgetting that it was the ANC that swallowed up the party of apartheid, the National Party, in 2004. He had conveniently wiped Marthinus van Schalkwyk - the former student spy who delivered the NP to the ANC and was rewarded with two successive cabinet posts by Mbeki and Zuma - from history.Only a week before the Tembisa utterances, Zuma was beating the same drum. He told an audience at the Market Theatre that he does not understand black people who choose to vote for the DA."After we liberated ourselves they came together, this same DA, Democratic Alliance, it was an alliance between the Progressive Party and the National Party," said Zuma. "If you are a black person, you join that party, really? Really?"These two very different campaigns sit cheek-by-jowl in the current ANC.The party is like a married couple who no longer love or like each other but are staying together merely for the kids. It's no longer a marriage. It's a front.What happens after August 3? Will Zuma punish the Gauteng ANC for using his "enemies" to campaign? Will he be challenged by these same individuals?The road to next year's ANC conference is already looking extremely bumpy...