Paul Shipokosa Mashatile

Paul Mashatile's Arts and Culture Ministry may be merged with Sport...

Senior figures in the ANC's Gauteng provincial organisation such as Paul Mashatile who opposed Zuma at last year's party elections at Mangaung looked embarrassed lest he and his comrades be accused of organising this mass dissension...

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

Another who is marked for removal is Paul Mashatile the Culture Minister and a key backer of Motlanthe...

Also before Mangaung Zuma promised the relatively young Gauteng leaders Provincial Secretary David Makhura and Chairman Paul Mashatile places on the NEC...

The KZN ANC led by Zweli Mkhize wanted the Gauteng ANC led by Paul Mashatile to merge their slate of nominations for the top six leadership positions in the ANC but to retain Zuma as President Motlanthe as ANC Vice-President and Gwede Mantashe as ANC Secretary General...

The ANC’s intellectual base the Gauteng region (500 delegates) supports Motlanthe with its Chairman Paul Mashatile as Treasurer...

Plans for a post-Zuma era Zuma’s main rivals Tokyo Sexwale and Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe are trying to fix it so that Motlanthe would be a one-term president Sexwale would be his deputy and Paul Mashatile Gauteng’s provincial leader and Premier would be ANC national chairman...

A likely replacement is the Arts and Culture Minister Paul Mashatile from the Motlanthe faction who is angry that Zuma demoted him from Premier of Gauteng the financial heartland to a cultural backwater...

Hoping to break up the plot Zuma appointed the provincial leader Paul Mashatile as Arts and Culture Minister and former Provincial Secretary Obed Bapela another Motlanthe-supporter as Deputy Minister of Communications...

Gauteng Premier Nomvula Mokonyane may also be in the firing line after losing the ANC Provincial Chairmanship to former provincial Premier Paul Mashatile...