Kubayi To Discuss Her Rumoured Anc Deputy President Ambitions When Time Is Right

ANC national working committee NWC member Mmamoloko Kubayi has downplayed her rumoured ambitions of contesting the partys deputy presidency position in the 2027 elective conference, saying she will announce her position at the right time.

In an interview with the Mail Guardian , Kubayi said she would, as in the run-up to the previous elective conference in 2022, wait for the processes of the ANC as a disciplined cadre of the movement to be opened.

In 2022, Kubayi was endorsed by her branch in Protea South, Soweto, to run for ANC deputy president, but failed to meet the nomination threshold. She said she had been a victim of the partys new electoral system which members were not yet accustomed to.

In March this year, she was replaced as the ANCs economic transformation committee chair by Zuko Glodlimpi .

According to sources close to her camp, Kubayi had asked to be removed from the position since last year because she was overwhelmed with her work as justice minister, in addition to serving in the NWC and national executive committee .