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January 2018, Nonkonyana announced that he would run against Jordaan for the Safa presidency in March. Safa organisers objected, pointing to his expulsion from the body three years earlier, but Nonkonyana insisted that he had been expelled as Safa vice-president, not as a Safa member. He lost a
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Nonkonyana was a prominent figure in
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be in the forefront of politics but instead dedicate the remaining years of my life to traditional leadership and ensure that it was holding the necessary centre-stage on governance". In March 2022, he was elected to return to his former position as chairperson of
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should not involve plans to expropriate land currently owned by traditional authorities; he said that such a programme would make the government "successors to colonialists" and suggested that traditional leaders would "take up arms" against the policy if necessary.
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