Fikile April Mbalula

In the run-up to the highly contested conference the KZN Youth League declared strongly for Zikalala who used to be Secretary General of the ANC Youth League and served under a former leader Fikile Mbalula...

'It is not true that comrades are imposed they emerged from the democratic processes of the organisation… We must debunk that notion ' said Fikile Mbalula former ANCYL President and current Minister of Sports and Recreation...

Nevertheless he has support from a broad spectrum of ANC constituencies and is ahead of other possible successors Among these are African Union Chairperson Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma ambitious Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe Sport and Recreation Minister Fikile Mbalula and the Arts and Culture (formerly Police) Minister Nathi Mthethwa...

Sport Minister Fikile Mbalula owes his position at number six to his help in outflanking Zuma's radical critics such as sacked ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema...

The Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula a former ANCYL leader has publicly condemned Malema despite the fact that Malema had supported his candidacy for secretary general at Mangaung...

Likewise despite backing Motlanthe at Mangaung Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile and Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula are needed for their campaigning skills...

Fikile Mbalula the Sports Minister and former ANCYL President will be another casualty we hear...

Keeping the provinces sweet Zuma also wooed Fikile Mbalula the Sports Minister and former Youth League President who was on the Motlanthe slate of candidates for the party’s top six posts sources close to Motlanthe said...

That includes Tokyo Sexwale Mathews Phosa Fikile Mbalula and leaders from provinces or factions that backed him: Limpopo North-West Western Cape Gauteng and Northern Cape...

It calls for the election of Motlanthe as party President Phosa as Deputy President Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula as Secretary General Deputy SG Thandi Modise as Chair and Sexwale as Treasurer...