A spokeswoman in South Africa’s finance ministry on Monday said only that the government will discuss succession at the bank with its neighbors in the Southern African Development Community. Spokesmen for South Africa’s presidency and foreign ministry didn’t respond to requests for comment.

If South Africa agrees to nominate Mr. Ncube and convinces enough powerful African nations to back him, he would become its first president from southern Africa since the 1980s.

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