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Opposition realignments and ruling party exits open up the field for next year s election, The resignation of Mavuso Msimang, deputy president of the African National Congress Veterans League (ANCVL) and a respected lifelong activist, has widened cracks in the ruling party. It also points to a deepening generational divide within the ruling party s affiliates. ANC Youth League members have been lambasting the elders conservatism and its President Collen Malatji is demanding its members get a quota of 50% on the party s list of parliamentary candidates.