The winner will have the ANC's blessing to run for president in 2024 elections under its banner, historically a shoo-in for the country's top job ever since the party's leading light Nelson Mandela ended white minority rule in 1994.
Mkhize, who also ran against Ramaphosa when the latter won the position in 2017, denies wrongdoing. Both had been nominated ahead of the conference, and no additional candidates were added from the floor as nominations were concluded around midnight on Saturday. Ramaphosa has been the favourite to lead the party into elections in 2024, but his candidacy was called into doubt when an independent panel said last month he might have committed misconduct over the cash found at his farm during a robbery.
Mkhize was always the strongest challenger from Zuma's camp -- the other main ones, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, a Cabinet minister and Zuma's former wife, and Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu did not qualify to be on the ballot.
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