Panyaza Lesufi is also coming in under similar circumstances in the most contested area in the country – Gauteng. In two years' time, he has to carry this limping giant to the most difficult and possibly its most existential election ever.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s special adviser for international relations at the Union Buildings was this week appointed as the interim co-ordinator of the ANC Women’s League, a move seen as another power grab of the party’s structures by Ramaphosa.