Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

The ANC Deputy President and ANCYL’s new nominee for the party presidency in 2012 Kgalema Motlanthe hedges insisting that the debate must take place ‘within a constitutional framework’...

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has privately expressed reservations about Zuma’s ‘uncritical’ embrace of the Chinese giant; he argues that South Africa should emulate Brazil and India whose model of economic development includes democracy unlike China’s...

Kgalema Motlanthe Deputy President: focuses on the United States Canada Britain and the European Union...

The latest ANC chief to come out against Zuma is its Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe who describes himself as a loyal and disciplined member of the party who ‘has not spoken to anyone about his future role in the ANC'...

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...

’ Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe is also well known to have presidential ambitions and in a climate where Zuma is seen to be struggling friends have advised him to stake his claim for the presidency more aggressively and to work harder to secure the election of friendly mayors and councillors...

The ANC’s Kgalema Motlanthe the national Deputy President seems to have given up hope of victory but Ehrenreich has working class appeal and may give De Lille a run for her money...

The ANC National Executive unceremoniously removed him making way for Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to take the top job on an interim basis in 2008...

The debate is sharpening about what route South Africa’s development should take: the Chinese-style high-growth low-democracy model favoured by ANC leaders from the Marxist-Leninist guerrilla and exile traditions or the Indian and Brazilian model of development and democracy moving together favoured by ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and most trade union leaders...

Dissenters proposed ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe as a contender with Housing Minister Tokyo Sexwale and former ANC Youth League (ANCYL) President Fikile Mbalula as power-brokers...