Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota (Terror)

* Patrick 'Terror' Lekota ousted by the ANC leadership as Premier of the Free State Province and now chairing the National Council of Provinces (the faltering institution which replaced the Senate) says he was asked by North West Premier and ANC Chairperson Popo Molefe to stand for the deputy presidency and agreed...

Yet in the seven ANC-controlled provinces serious problems are emerging: Raymond Mhlaba was indecorously eased out of the Eastern Cape premiership; trickier still was the ousting of the popular Patrick 'Terror' Lekota from the Free State premiership after repeated clashes with ANC provincial Chairman Pat Matosa and deputy Chairman Ace Magashule...

We hear that plans for the ANC Youth League to mount a rearguard action against the ANC leadership' s replacement of Free State Premier Patrick 'Terror' Lekota by Ivy Matsebe-Casaburri were dropped after pressure from the ANC' s Shell House headquarters...

Local opponents are trying to get rid of Patrick 'Terror' Lekota (Orange Free State) and Popo Molefe (North-West)...