Ramaphosa will ward off leadership challengers

Significance

In it, she took aim at high-level judges and politicians using terms such as "mentally colonised Africans" and attacked what she called a "neo-liberal constitution" of "foreign inspiration". Her article sparked an uproar within the party and is widely seen as the opening bid of a campaign for the party's leadership.

Impacts

• Sisulu will face challenges to her bid for leadership of the RET faction.
• Ramaphosa and his allies will struggle to prosecute fully those implicated in corruption by the recent state capture report.
• Intra-ANC violence may increase in the run-up to the December national conference.