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Baleka Mbete

Date of Birth: 24/09/1949


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ANC hopefuls race for the top

If the league's interim convener former parliamentary speaker Baleka Mbete and others have their way the ANC is likely to see two women in the top six...


Zuma goes down fighting

The Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete would become acting President and the ANC within 30 days would have to elect a new state president who would appoint a new cabinet...


The goodbye gets longer

On that day the budget is due to be read in parliament according to Baleka Mbete Speaker of Parliament...


Pushing Zuma to the exit

Baleka Mbete Speaker of the National Parliament who switched sides to back Ramaphosa would be Minister of Women's Affairs; Lindiwe Sisulu Human Settlements Minister who backed Ramaphosa would become Minister for International Relations; Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma defeated by Ramaphosa for the ANC Presidency would get the Social Development portfolio...


A fight to the photo-finish

Last week President Zuma met the two leading contenders and all the others – Zweli Mkhize former ANC Treasurer Mathews Phosa the Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete and Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu – to persuade them to accept defeat and not challenge it in court or split from the party...

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Mabuza changes the race

While the seven party president candidates – Dlamini-Zuma Ramaphosa Mkhize party Chair Baleka Mbete Minister at the Presidency Jeff Radebe Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and former ANC Treasurer Mathews Phosa – slug it out Mabuza has skilfully thrown his hat into the ring to be Deputy President...


Can the usurpers unite?

Twenty minutes after Speaker Baleka Mbete had announced on 8 August that the President had survived yet another confidence vote a beaming Jacob Zuma surrounded by bodyguards swept into the parliamentary precinct in Cape Town...


ANC dilemma deepens

All eyes are on the Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete who is both a Zuma-loyalist and a possible if unlikely candidate to succeed him...


No place to hide

In addition to him and Dlamini-Zuma other presidential hopefuls include Parliament Speaker Baleka Mbete ANC Treasurer General Zweli Mkhize Presidency Minister Jeff Radebe and Human Settlements Minister Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu...


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