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Fikile April Mbalula

Date of Birth: 8 April 1971
Place of Birth: Botshabelo, Free State


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The markets bet on Ramaphosa's grand coalition

They are the ambitious and vocal Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula who backs up the president and whose job it is to promote unity among the factions and ANC chair and Mining and Petroleum Minister Gwede Mantashe who reached out to the populist MK and EFF parties in a failed bid go bring them into the GNU fold...


The ANC stitches together a pro-market coalition

ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula acknowledged there were some dissenters on all sides: ‘We have agreed that as political parties we need to gravitate towards the centre except a few who did not expressly support the GNU'...


On the back foot in Gauteng

ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula – by the nature of his post having to straddle all factions – is a more ambiguous shoot-from-the-hip style of politician who is seen as more populist than not...


All eyes on KwaZulu-Natal

But on 29 January the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC) suspended Zuma with secretary-general Fikile Mbalula saying it was to 'protect and preserve' the ANC's 'integrity' in line with its constitution...


Jacob Zuma's revenge

ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula said that the party was already taking legal action to protect the name of its former military wing which the ANC 'owned'...


The ANC hones its strategy for election survival

Led by ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula party officials have already been trotting out these talking points: accusing politicians who leave the ANC such as Roger Jardine as being in the pay of 'white monopoly capital'...


Contenders brace for electoral upsets

' The ANC's Secretary-General and de facto Chief Executive Fikile Mbalula also known as 'Mbaks' is benefiting from the uncertainty about the party's direction...


Despite everything, the ANC charts a path to victory

Under ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula Luthuli House has been the driving force...

Mbalula on the riseAnother name mooted as an ANC presidential contender is Fikile Mbalula who has re-organised the office of secretary-general and speaks out on domestic and international issues (AC Vol 64 No 5 ANC cabinet contenders step up lobbying)...


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