Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

Meanwhile the Parliamentary Speaker and ANC Chairperson Baleka Mbete a former Deputy President under Kgalema Motlanthe is being suggested as another leading female candidate...

Former ANC President Kgalema Motlanthe and ex-Finance Minister Trevor Manuel were just two of the many senior figures present...

Among them are former ANC Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe the Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu foundations as well as the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation headed by one of the last three survivors of Nelson Mandela's Rivonia Trial group Ahmed 'Kathy' Kathrada...

Lined up on Gordhan's side are ANC Secretary General Gwede Mantashe the leadership of South African business the SA Communist Party Congress of South African Trade Unions affiliates former President Kgalema Motlanthe who this week called for 'failed leaders' to step down and ex-Finance Minister Trevor Manuel...

Before the business people made their démarche on the Sunday ANC leaders had met at the home of former President Kgalema Motlanthe who lost to Zuma in the 2012 ANC presidential election...

2 November: Former Acting President Kgalema Motlanthe says the Tripartite Alliance of the governing African National Congress (ANC) Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the SA Communist Party is dead and criticises the Zuma leadership for not sticking to the constitution...

Ethekwini's support was crucial to Zuma's victory against Mbeki at the party's Polokwane National Conference in 2007 and against former ANC and national Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe at Mangaung in 2012...

The SACP political machine also gave crucial support to Zuma in his victory over ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe in the party presidential poll at Mangaung in 2012...

Zuma supported Ramaphosa's election as his deputy at the ANC's Mangaung conference in December 2012 mostly to neutralise his then rival former Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and to appease a rank-and-file worried that the waves of scandal washing over the President were threatening to fracture and undermine the ANC's credibility and electability...

Mbeki's supporters favoured former Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and latterly Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa...