Mosima Gabriel Sexwale (Tokyo)

In 2001 Mbeki endorsed his Police Minister Steve Tshwete when the latter publicly accused Ramaphosa and two other leading ANC members Tokyo Sexwale and Matthews Phosa of a plot to unseat the President and 'endanger Mbeki's life'...

And former Robben Island prisoner and African National Congress stalwart Tokyo Sexwale who heads a gold firm led a delegation of 15 top SA companies to Khartoum last week meeting inter alia Oil Minister and NIF pillar Awad el Jaz once a senior Bank al Shimal official...

Mvelaphanda run by former Gauteng Premier Tokyo Sexwale has diamond mining partnerships with De Beers...

Last year's potential challengers Mathews Phosa Tokyo Sexwale and Cyril Ramaphosa were besmirched by farcical accusations of conspiracy and are now barely visible...

Tokyo Sexwale has declined requests by ANC branches in Gauteng North-West and Limpopo to stand as treasurer...

He later admitted no such plot existed and apologised publicly to the men he had accused: Cyril Ramaphosa Mathews Phosa and Tokyo Sexwale formerly Mbeki's rivals for the party leadership now successful in business...

The usual suspects: ANC ex-Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa 50 Gauteng ex-Premier Tokyo Sexwale 49 and Mpumalanga ex-Premier Mathews Phosa were all named by Tshwete as suspects in an anti-Mbeki plot: he later apologised to them when police found the suspicions groundless...

In the name of intelligence operatives have: unearthed a widely publicised and discredited plot in which the popular and senior African National Congress members Cyril Ramaphosa Matthews Phosa and Tokyo Sexwale were accused of planning to overthrow the state; investigated who was circulating the absurd rumour that President Mbeki was involved in the assassination of former SA Communist Party leader Chris Hani; had computers and vehicles stolen from NIA headquarters; provided wildly inaccurate intelligence to military commanders in 1998 before the dispatch of troops to Lesotho (AC Vol 39 No 20) leading to heavy casualties and the sacking of Maseru; got caught with surveillance cameras pointed at the German Embassy in Pretoria; admitted to offering senior political journalists information in exchange for access to operatives...

Tokyo Sexwale former ANC Premier of Gauteng Province pushed out by Mbeki's supporters into the mining business who calls the allegations 'complete hogwash'; 3...

He is now seen as a brilliant political fixer mastering his party and neutralising such potential rivals as for example two former provincial premiers Tokyo Sexwale (Gauteng) and Phosa (Mpumalanga)...

Motshekga himself succeeded Tokyo Sexwale who left the premiership abruptly in early 1998...