Charles Nqakula

SACP Chairman Charles Nqakula Mbeki's loyal ally sent a counter-memo to party members requiring that all party policy statements be cleared with him...

Zuma's camp will try to oust Mbeki loyalist Charles Nqakula as SACP Chairman; Mbeki-ites will try to remove SACP General Secretary and Zuma campaign cheerleader Blade Nzimande...

They began with the South African mediator Charles Nqakula holding separate consultations with each party...

Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula insists the fake e-mail chaos could not happen again since by July a new Office for Interception Centres will be operational grouping under one office the telephone and e-mail bugging operations of all law enforcement agencies...

Failing that Mbeki would prefer Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula to the activists-turned-businessmen Cyril Ramaphosa or Tokyo Sexwale; others in line include Gauteng Premier Sam Shilowa Limpopo Premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi and Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni...

Other possible contenders for Mbeki's post when he is due to stand down in 2009 include Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni Defence Minister Mosiuoa 'Terror' Lekota Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula (SA Communist Party national Chairperson) and leading businessmen Patrice Motsepe (Rainbow Minerals) and Saki Macazoma (Standard Bank and Safika)...

Other upwardly mobile ANC figures are Minerals and Energy Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (married to Bulelani) Nosiviwe Mapise-Nqakula (wife of Charles Nqakula) Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and assistant ANC Secretary General Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele...

Former Cosatu General Secretary Sam Shilowa is now ANC Premier of Gauteng Province; SACP Chairperson Charles Nqakula is Minister of Safety and Security; the two organisations are represented on the ANC's 61-member National Executive Committee (NEC) and so on...

Within days the ANC's new Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said the government's security vote would rise sharply to counter renewed threats in kZN and from white right-wingers...

To replace him Mbeki quickly appointed another close ally Charles Nqakula formerly Deputy Minister of Home Affairs...

Five Communists hold senior ministries and the SACP Chairman Charles Nqakula is Mbeki's parliamentary advisor...