Would Zuma and Mbeki factions entertain a compromise candidate?

As it turned out, the ANC became divided into two centres of power - the government, led by the Mbeki-faction, and the party, led by the Zuma faction.

Into that mix we also had to factor the corruption charges against Zuma, claims by his supporters that the Mbeki faction had engineered his prosecution, the vested interest of COSATU, the SACP and the ANCYL in seeing Zuma elected as the country's president, and lately others who are staking their own claims to profit from a Zuma presidency by pressurising the judiciary, criminal justice system and even the media.