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Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

Date of Birth: 19 July 1949
Place of Birth: Alexandra township, Johannesburg


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Squaring the circle

Acting national President Kgalema Motlanthe warned that strong-arm tactics or violent language risk unravelling South Africa's democracy...


The Left's alternative economics

Mathews Phosa Gwede Mantashe Kgalema Motlanthe and Cyril Ramaphosa have asked the critics to tone down their public statements on economic policy...


On the verge of a nervous breakdown

Two figures might fit the bill: either the new caretaker national President Kgalema Motlanthe or ANC Treasurer Mathews Phosa...

Since Mbeki’s ousting Kgalema Motlanthe and Matthews Phosa have come to the fore while Zuma has been strangely quiet...


The breakaways

Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota born in 1948 in Kroonstad Free State is from the same political generation as Cyril Ramaphosa Tokyo Sexwale Mathews Phosa and Kgalema Motlanthe...


A wounded presidency

The soft-spoken Kgalema Motlanthe elevated from the Deputy Presidency of the African National Congress to the Presidency of South Africa faces a tough job...

The backlash against Mbeki’s firing has moved the Zuma camp to go for Kgalema Motlanthe as a unifier rather than the partisan Mbete whose appointment may have caused even more strife in the ANC and in the markets; she is now Motlanthe’s Deputy President...


'Elder brother' Motlanthe

In 1997 the quiet unassuming but cerebral Kgalema Motlanthe was nominated by the left wing of the African National Congress tripartite alliance as ANC General Secretary as a pro-worker bulwark against the party’s pro-business Thabo Mbeki-led leadership...


Politicians parley, people starve

It is unclear whether South Africa's new Premier Kgalema Motlanthe will take a firmer line with Mugabe since Mbeki is to remain as mediator in the talks for now...


The ANC – a luta continua

ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe cautions against the move and former ANC General Secretary Cyril Ramaphosa is saying nothing publicly...

We understand that Kgalema Motlanthe the ANC Deputy President opposes Mbeki’s immediate resignation saying it would plunge the party into even more disarray...


Blame the judges

Of these some argue that if offered immunity Zuma should remain President of the ANC - but not its presidential candidate who should be one of the party's four Young Turks: ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe ANC Treasurer Mathews Phosa former ANC general secretary Cyril Ramaphosa or former Gauteng Premier Tokyo Sexwale...


Zuma takes the provinces

Supporters of Jacob Zuma the President of the African National Congress made their boldest effort yet to take over the government when they brought Kgalema Motlanthe into the cabinet on 12 July...


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