Will ANC MP Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma be part of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s new administration?
Maybe, maybe not.
After losing a bruising battle for the presidency of the ANC in December, the former African Union Commission chairwoman has apparently told Ramaphosa she wants to step down as a National Assembly member.
According to ANC sources, Dlamini-Zuma told party bosses that she was “tired and had enough of politics”, and wants to quit parliament.
However, she has indicated she would remain a member of the ANC’s top leadership structures — the national executive committee and the national working committee.
'Tired' Dlamini-Zuma wants out of Parliament
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Will ANC MP Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma be part of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s new administration?
Maybe, maybe not.
After losing a bruising battle for the presidency of the ANC in December, the former African Union Commission chairwoman has apparently told Ramaphosa she wants to step down as a National Assembly member.
According to ANC sources, Dlamini-Zuma told party bosses that she was “tired and had enough of politics”, and wants to quit parliament.
However, she has indicated she would remain a member of the ANC’s top leadership structures — the national executive committee and the national working committee.
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It is understood that Ramaphosa asked Dlamini-Zuma to stay on, saying he needed her services in government. Although this was a signal that Ramaphosa intended to appoint her to his cabinet, Dlamini-Zuma apparently said that she was not interested in becoming a minister or a committee chairwoman in parliament.
An NEC member sympathetic to Dlamini-Zuma said it was a bad time for her to step down because she could be seen as “sulking” over the result of the ANC conference.
“I don’t think it would be a strategic move for her to leave parliament. It would create an impression that she’s angry about the Nasrec outcome,” he said.
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