Fikile April Mbalula

Ramaphosa's allies – including heavyweights like secretary-general hopeful Fikile Mbalula current party chair Gwede Mantashe and deputy presidential nominee Senzo Mchunu – lost out badly in the branches (AC Vol 63 No 22 Ramaphosa names his party allies)...

He is going up against ANC heavyweights Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula who is on the Ramaphosa slate and former Eastern Cape premier Phumulo Masualle who is on Mkhize's slate...

' Alongside Mchunu the team included Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula as secretary-general former Gauteng health chief Gwen Ramokgopa as treasurer-general and Gwede Mantashe to stay on as chairperson...

To facilitate the process and access cheaper financing Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula signed in March the Luxembourg Rail Protocol a set of guidelines which make it easier for the private sector to finance rolling stock...

Some police officials had been pushing former State Security Minister David Mahlobo and former Police and later Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula as candidates to replace Cele...

Fikile Mbalula the ANC election chief in the disastrous municipal poll and who is in line for another mayoral position denied the party had resorted to bribery to secure the mayor's post in eThekwini...

The put-down came from ANC election chief Fikile Mbalula who also serves as Transport Minister in President Cyril Ramaphosa's government...

A fragile truce brokered by national Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula in early August appears to be holding...

Then Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula changed the rules and permitted taxis to travel 70% full...

Other key figures in the coalition included: Safety and Security Minister Bheki Cele who did little to contain overzealous security forces before the court ruling; Trade and Industry Minister Ebrahim Patel who conceived the puzzling regulations about what clothing people should be allowed to buy; Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula who first gave in to the powerful taxi lobby and then took a hard line to arrest street traders; Minister of Social Development Lindiwe Zulu who had to be restrained by a pending court order from intervening in food distribution; and Tourism Minister Nkhensani Kubayi-Ngubane who refused to pay money from a R200 million (US$11m) fund earmarked for struggling tour operators unless they could prove they were complying with Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) requirements...

A video clip went viral showing Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula imperiously demanding that police 'Arrest and impound impound and arrest' a street trader lacking a permit...