Durban - Former KwaZulu-Natal premier Senzo Mchunu could still make a comeback to provincial politics of the ANC, political analyst, Xolani Dube, said on Monday.
“He has not been pushed out of politics in KZN, but only in the provincial administration,” Dube said.
He made the comments amid reports that Mchunu had turned down redeployment to the National Assembly.
Neither Mchunu nor the ANC have made official comment on the matter since the news broke on Friday.
When he resigned, Mchunu had said that he would write to the national leadership on his redeployment.
When he lost out as provincial ANC secretary in the 1990s, Mchunu had regrouped and worked his way up to become a member of the provincial executive. His biography, which has since been removed from the government website, states that he was the first provincial secretary for the ANC after the merger of three regions in December 1994.
Mchunu later became regional deputy secretary for Northern Natal in 1997 and then deputy provincial secretary in 1998, and a provincial secretary five years later.
In 2008, he was again re-elected as the provincial secretary, only to become member of the provincial executive committee in 2012 and provincial chairman in 2013.
On Monday, Dube said Mchunu still enjoyed backing from his home region.
Dube said the former premier could make a comeback if he wished because there was nothing barring him for re-election within the ANC.
“There is no restriction that says one can’t go back and be leader of a region if he had been chairman of the province. The prospects are there for him. I think we can see him make a comeback,” he said.
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