Fikile April Mbalula

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...

While ministers Bheki Cele and Fikile Mbalula have been prominent on policing and transport respectively there's been concern that they often 'confuse and clutter' messages say ANC insiders...

New cropInsiders say that major changes are due at ANC headquarters as the likes of Senzo Mchunu narrowly beaten to the post of Secretary-General by Magashule in the 2017 election Kodwa and ANC election chief Fikile Mbalula a former Zuma loyalist turned Ramaphosa fan leave for government positions...