{"id":58239,"date":"2023-12-18T16:19:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T16:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/will-zumas-decision-not-to-campaign-and-vote-for-the-anc-hurt-the-party"},"modified":"2023-12-18T17:09:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T17:09:46","slug":"will-zumas-decision-not-to-campaign-and-vote-for-the-anc-hurt-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/will-zumas-decision-not-to-campaign-and-vote-for-the-anc-hurt-the-party","title":{"rendered":"Will Zuma\u2019s decision not to campaign and vote for the ANC hurt the party?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>RETHABILE RADEBE<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>With general elections around the corner, the ANC seems to be preoccupied with internal party politics rather than putting all its efforts into garnering support for next year&#8217;s polls.<\/p>\n<p>Former president Jacob Zuma caused a storm when he announced he would not vote or campaign for the governing party.Zuma, who has been a card-carrying member of the party for 64 years, spoke in Soweto at the weekend and told his supporters: \u201cIn 2024 I will vote for the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) party. It has already been registered with the IEC, with my knowledge and blessings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former president seemed to elude that the reason for his decision was because of President Cyril Ramaphosa, saying: \u201cI have decided I cannot and will not campaign for the ANC of [president Cyril] Ramaphosa. It is not the ANC I joined, it will be a betrayal to campaign for the ANC of Ramaphosa. My conscience will not allow that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>It remains unclear if the Umkhonto we Sizwe party is a legitimately registered political entity.<\/p>\n<p>In the past Zuma said he would \u201cdie ANC\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Zuma&#8217;s announcement is likely to have a major impact on the party&#8217;s performance in the elections in KwaZulu-Natal as he has a strong support base in the province.<\/p>\n<p>While the party continues to try to salvage its image and get more people to vote for it, it recently suffered a scare when ANC Veterans&#8217; League deputy president Mavuso Msimang resigned from the party, but ended up rescinding the decision after talks with party leadership.<\/p>\n<p><b>source:timeslive<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RETHABILE RADEBE Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. With general elections around the corner, the ANC seems to be preoccupied with internal party politics rather than putting all its efforts into garnering support for next year&#8217;s polls. Former president Jacob Zuma caused a storm when he announced he would not vote or campaign for the governing party.Zuma, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":58238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,377],"tags":[274,315,275],"class_list":["post-58239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-files","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Will Zuma\u2019s decision not to campaign and vote for the ANC hurt the party? - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"With general elections around the corner, the ANC seems to be preoccupied with internal party politics rather than putti ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/will-zumas-decision-not-to-campaign-and-vote-for-the-anc-hurt-the-party\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Will Zuma\u2019s decision not to campaign and vote for the ANC hurt the party?\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"With general elections around the corner, the ANC seems to be preoccupied with internal party politics rather than putti ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/will-zumas-decision-not-to-campaign-and-vote-for-the-anc-hurt-the-party\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-18T16:19:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-18T17:09:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2023\/12\/sm_1702906712.782658.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"524\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/will-zumas-decision-not-to-campaign-and-vote-for-the-anc-hurt-the-party#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/will-zumas-decision-not-to-campaign-and-vote-for-the-anc-hurt-the-party\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Will Zuma\u2019s decision not to campaign and vote for the ANC hurt the party?\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-12-18T16:19:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-18T17:09:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/will-zumas-decision-not-to-campaign-and-vote-for-the-anc-hurt-the-party\"},\"wordCount\":289,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/will-zumas-decision-not-to-campaign-and-vote-for-the-anc-hurt-the-party#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2023\/12\/sm_1702906712.782658.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Africa\",\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"files\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/will-zumas-decision-not-to-campaign-and-vote-for-the-anc-hurt-the-party#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/will-zumas-decision-not-to-campaign-and-vote-for-the-anc-hurt-the-party\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/will-zumas-decision-not-to-campaign-and-vote-for-the-anc-hurt-the-party\",\"name\":\"Will Zuma\u2019s decision not to campaign and vote for the ANC hurt the party? 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