How Zuma has stepped into Harry Gwala’s KZN shoes

The former president may hold no office now but he still dominates ANC politics in his home province

14 August 2022 - 00:03

Back in the early 1990s when the ANC was still rebuilding its presence in the country following three decades of illegality and exile, its structures in what we now call KwaZulu-Natal were divided into three regions: Southern Natal, the Natal Midlands and the North Coast. The North Coast was the weakest of the three — it was largely under the control of the then KwaZulu homeland government and was a stronghold of the rival IFP. ..

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