{"id":920776,"date":"2022-01-30T11:03:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T11:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/30\/amazulu-boss-steps-up-his-political-ambitions-as-he-engages-jacob-zuma-and-zweli-mkhize\/"},"modified":"2022-01-30T11:03:53","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T11:03:53","slug":"amazulu-boss-steps-up-his-political-ambitions-as-he-engages-jacob-zuma-and-zweli-mkhize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/30\/amazulu-boss-steps-up-his-political-ambitions-as-he-engages-jacob-zuma-and-zweli-mkhize\/","title":{"rendered":"AmaZulu boss steps up his political ambitions as he engages Jacob Zuma and Zweli Mkhize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Over the years many sports personalities have transitioned from sport to politics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Icons such as George Weah, the first African footballer win the World Player Of The Year Award, stood their ground in politics. Weah went on to become the president of Liberia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>AmaZulu owner Sandile Zungu raffled feathers earlier this week when he stated that he is entering politics on an ANC ticket.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/ec225752019b442e8c4b3d3984e9aa4a\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Zungu is determined to be the ANC KZN Chairman. If he wins the race, that position will give him so much power and ground on the political divide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zungu is so serious about his ambitions that he has consulted political heavyweights.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m engaged in quite an extensive consultation process. I\u2019m speaking to my family, business leaders and my church leadership at the Salvation Army to seek their counsel. I\u2019m also consulting other ANC leaders who have led the province,\u201d Zungu said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/c89ac96ad5f44b9f82ba9296ad2a1d08\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Among the leaders that the 55-yearold Zungu is consulting are former president Jacob Zuma, former health minister Zweli Mkhize, former Kwazulu-natal premier now South African ambassador to India Sibusiso Ndebele, former provincial MEC for Economic Development and Tourism Mike Mabuyakhulu, and former Kwazulu-natal premier and now chairperson of the provincial planning commission Willies Mchunu.<\/p>\n<p>With the way he has turned around the fortunes of AmaZulu, perhaps Zungu has a chanceof proving himself as a mainstream politician.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: https:\/\/sportsbrief.com\/football\/amazulu\/10793-amazulu-owner-has-eye-anc-leadership-sandile-zungu-could-be-considered-provincial-chairperson-post\/<\/p>\n<p>Sunday World 30 January 2022<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/9c342189e1f24442870a11ee3083f385\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Dizaldo (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nANC KZN<br \/>\nAmaZulu<br \/>\nGeorge Weah<br \/>\nLiberia.<br \/>\nSandile Zungu<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years many sports personalities have transitioned from sport to politics.\u00a0 Icons such as George Weah, the first African footballer win the World Player Of The Year Award, stood their ground in politics. Weah went on to become the president of Liberia.\u00a0 AmaZulu owner Sandile Zungu raffled feathers earlier this week when he stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}