Horse trading and negotiations from lobbyists in Bathabile Dlamini’s and Thembeka Mchunu’s camps are said to be continuing on day two of the ANC Women’s League conference.n understands that Mchunu’s faction is trying to negotiate for the two camps to merge and form a united bloc against Sisisi Tolashe who is also vying for the presidency.
Both Mchunu and Tolashe are in the Ramaphosa faction which fought for his re-election at the ANC Nasrec conference last year. An insider in the Tolashe camp said that while they are confident that she would be elected as league president, they were concerned that the talks between the two camps will hurt other contenders in their slate.Tolashe who is the only one of the three contenders hailing from the Eastern Cape is believed to be also part of the Chris Hani Cabal, a clique of powerful ANC leaders in the province who were instrumental in fending off detractors of Ramaphosa.