Inside Politics Analysis
With three weeks to go until the 29 May elections, ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa and a full contingent of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) hit the campaign trail in KwaZulu-Natal from Monday in a bid to keep control of the country’s most influential province.
With KwaZulu-Natal contributing more than 2 million of the ANC’s 10 million votes in 2019, its chairperson, Siboniso Duma, heads a leadership which faces a massive task in holding off challenges from both the Inkatha Freedom Party/Democratic Alliance and the breakaway uMkhonto we Sizwe Party.
Faced with a string of by-election losses since the November 2021 local government elections – in which it took just over 45% of the vote across the province, Duma (48) – faces the most difficult environment of all the ANC’s premier candidates – outside the DA-controlled Western Cape.
Duma, who has been a Provincial MP since 2014,
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