South Africa: Inside KZN - ANC Hopes for Business As Normal At the Polls in an Often Abnormal Province

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The past weeks have not been kind to KwaZulu-Natal, with provincial floods claiming more than 80 lives and causing R3bn damage, 13 people killed in an Empangeni church collapse, at least two political leaders assassinated and a municipal strike bringing downtown Durban to a standstill. Amid this turbulence, the ANC is hoping the provincial electorate will not punish the party for the ousting of local favourite Jacob Zuma.

If ANC KwaZulu-Natal provincial chair Sihle Zikalala is feeling the heat, he gave no sign of it on the sidelines of the province's final campaign rally on Sunday.

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