Mosima Gabriel Sexwale (Tokyo)

Leaning on powerful backers with their own agenda like Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale and Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula he will deploy street protests activist demonstrations and heckling in imitation of the tactics that Jacob Zuma used so successfully to dislodge Thabo Mbeki from the ANC presidency...

Human Settlements Minister Mosima Gabriel ‘Tokyo’ Sexwale said the ANC had previously accepted apologies from Zuma and his spokesman Jackson Mthembu but declined to do so for Malema...

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...

Housing Minister Tokyo Sexwale Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula and the former ANC Chief Whip Tony Yengeni – all opponents of a second term for Zuma – are rumoured to be ready to testify for Malema...

He points the finger at Tokyo Sexwale who denies the plot as do Zweli Mkhize ANC Premier of KwaZulu-Natal and Bheki Cele the national Police Commissioner...

Uncertain terms Most of the younger presidential hopefuls such as Deputy President Motlanthe ANC national Treasurer Mathews Phosa Tokyo Sexwale and Defence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu supported (or stayed neutral) during Zuma’s triumph over Thabo Mbeki...

Last year Mdluli submitted a report in his personal capacity to Zuma alleging that Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale was conspiring to remove Zuma at the ANC's National Conference in 2012...

The report says Tokyo Sexwale had formed an anti-Zuma alliance comprising KwaZulu Natal Premier Zweli Mkhize ANC Youth League (ANCYL) President Julius Malema ANC Treasurer Mathews Phosa Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula Justice Minister Jeffery Thamsanqa Radebe National Executive member Tony Yengeni and ANC provincial leaders David Mabuza and Cassel Mathale...

In March a meeting of MKMVA leaders ended in chaos with charges by pro-Zuma members that Tokyo Sexwale had sponsored the meeting to plot against Zuma’s presidency...

Zuma’s main rivals – Tokyo Sexwale Human Settlements Minister; Kgalema Motlanthe the Deputy President; and Mathews Phosa the ANC treasurer – annoyed his allies with their apparently lukewarm attitude during the campaign...

Would-be presidents seize the day Rival would-be presidential candidates notably Tokyo Sexwale are exploiting these problems to weaken Zuma and enhance their own prospects pushing their own local candidates to the fore...

Zuma was there in November to join their lavish celebrations for the Hindu Diwali festival and so were Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma Housing Minister Tokyo Sexwale (also a considerable political patron these days) Communications Minister Roy Padayachie and Magashule...

• Tokyo Sexwale: The Housing minister plays it neutral but is waiting to pounce when Zuma stumbles...