Flash Briefing: ANC factionalism at 'epidemic levels'; Zuma grasps at straws; ANC permitted to register candidates

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*South Africa’s Constitutional Court backed the electoral authority’s decision to allow political parties more time to register candidates for municipal elections.
*The ANC is riven by factionalism and “thugs and gangsters” have infiltrated the process for selecting electoral candidates, according to an internal report cited by the City Press newspaper.
*After failing to convince the Constitutional Court to rescind his 15-month prison sentence, Jacob Zuma is now heading to the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in search of justice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
20 Sep 2021 9AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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