Dlamini-Zuma pleads for discipline
African National Congress (ANC) presidential hopeful Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has pleaded with members to show the utmost discipline ahead of the party's national conference later this month.
The conference, which will elect new leadership, kicks off on December 16 at Nasrec in the south of Johannesburg.
Dlamini-Zuma spoke at the KwaZulu-Natal provincial general council shortly after she was officially endorsed by the ANC's biggest province to succeed President Jacob Zuma.
She told her presidential rivals and delegates that the need to respect the ANC's processes.
"People must be safe. The atmosphere must nice and reflect that we are cadres of the same organisation, we are comrades. The ANC elective conference is of interest to the entire world. We must behave like the ANC that our forbearers bequeathed to us. This ANC must survive and we must be able to give to it to future generations intact."
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Dlamini-Zuma's main rival, Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, is leading the highly-contected race with endorsements from Limpopo, Northern Cape, Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Gauteng. Dlamini-Zuma's campaign has received support from KwaZulu-Natal, Free State and North West.
"We must express our preference at the ballot box. We all committed ourselves to accepting the results of the conference. Therefore, those who win, embrace everybody. Those who lose, support those who win. That's the ANC," said Dlamini-Zuma.