Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma is like Jesus, says Bathabile Dlamini

The ANC Women’s League (ANCWL) has once again defied the governing party’s directive barring its leagues and structures not to start campaign for the party’s next leader by again publicly endorsing Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for ANC president.

League president Bathabile Dlamini, speaking in Khutsong, Gauteng, at a church service on Sunday heaped praise on Dlamini-Zuma, saying that, just like Jesus, she was “both a lion and a lamb”.

Dlamini said the ANCWL, which last month formally announced its backing of the former AU Commission chairperson, is campaigning for an honest leader and Dlamini-Zuma is a “woman among women”.

“She is fearless and simple. Truth never runs away from her tongue. She is a leader with two ears.”

Dlamini, however, did concede that the ANC had warned its structures against campaigning for the party’s new leaders ahead of its expected-to-be hotly contested 54^th national elective conference later this year in December.

“We are on a campaign and the NEC (national executive committee) said we should not campaign until the right time. But we will campaign for someone humble.”

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She said the high-profile resignations of Nel and Glynnis Breytenbach (now a DA MP) from the public prosecutions body clearly showed that “there’s something going on”.

“The formation of organisations like Save SA, which is led by someone who is working for a mining company and then thinks he can speak on behalf of the poor and talk as if he is speaking on behalf of the masses, shows that our revolution is in danger,” she said.

She was referring to ANC veteran and convener of the “Save South Africa” campaign, Sipho Pityana, who she also lashed for presuming to speak for the “masses”.

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