South Africa’s ANC divided, Zuma undermined by cabinet reshuffle | Reuters

By Mfuneko Toyana and Tanisha Heiberg | JOHANNESBURG JOHANNESBURG President Jacob Zuma's midnight sacking of his finance minister shook South African markets on Friday, undermining his authority and threatening to split the African National Congress (ANC) that has governed since the end of apartheid.Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is one of the leading candidates to replace Zuma as ANC president, described the decision to remove Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan as "totally, totally unacceptable".The comments by Ramaphosa, who usually publicly backs Zuma, were a sign of deepening divisions in the ANC that are likely to worsen until the party elects a new leader in December.Zuma's cabinet reorganisation rallied support, however, among powerful sections of the party that are hostile to banking interests they see Gordhan as representing.

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