Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

While the Dalai Lama awaited a visa to attend Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s 80th birthday party on 7th October South African Vice-President Kgalema Motlanthe and Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping were in Beijing signing a US$2...

Mthethwa was Minister of Safety and Security during Kgalema Motlanthe’s spell in the presidency (September 2008-May 2009)...

In Gauteng Province the economic powerhouse that includes Johannesburg and its spreading townships a faction in the provincial party had been plotting to replace Zuma with his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe at the 2012 party conference...

Some call for the marginalisation of Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe whom many want to succeed Zuma...

We hear his supporters have asked Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to stay away from public events so as not to upstage the President...

Other Vavi-supporters encourage him to support Kgalema Motlanthe currently Deputy President against Zuma...

Two former NUM leaders (and now top ANC officials) Gwede Mantashe and Kgalema Motlanthe face growing attacks from the conservative nationalist wing of the party led by youth leaguers Fikile Mbalula and Julius Malema...

Backing Motlanthe Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe a contender for the presidency wanted the outright suspension of Malema...

Zuma met Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Manuel to raise the concerns of Cosatu and the SACP and Dlamini was disappointed that the meeting did not change the status quo we hear...

Worse than Mbeki We understand that senior ANC leaders such as Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe ANC Treasurer Mathews Phosa and General Secretary Gwede Mantashe along with Zwelinzima Vavi of the Congress of South Africa Trade Unions (Cosatu) and Blade Nzimande of the SA Communist Party (SACP) asked Zuma to reprimand Malema publicly...