Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota (Terror)

The presence of Ramos and Marcus at the NEC meeting follows sharp criticism by its dominant faction which supports party President Jacob Zuma of companies which back either the pro-Thabo Mbeki faction or the new breakaway party led by Mosiuoa Lekota and Mbhazima Shilowa...

We hear that more than 50 members of parliament will defect en masse at a 'strategic' moment before the breakaway party headed by Mosiuoa 'Terror' Lekota (AC Vol 49 No 21) is formally launched on 16 December...

Three factions are now vying for power in the African National Congress: the dominant group led by ANC President Jacob Zuma which controls the National Executive Committee (NEC) the trades unions the Youth League and the intelligence groups; their immediate rivals who remain loyal to ousted national President Thabo Mbeki; and a third group led by Mosiuoa ‘Terror’ Lekota...

He threatened to lock his critics out and the next day half of the ANC Western Cape leaders pledged support to Mosiuoa Lekota...

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...

Party leaders who have privately talked about a new party – former Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota his former deputy Mluleki George the former Minister in the President’s Office Essop Pahad and Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa have all denied they were doing so...

When the Inter-State Defence and Security Committee of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) met in Luanda on 2-7 June Angola's Defence Minister Kundi Paihama poured scorn on his South African colleague Mosiuoa Lekota saying the attacks on immigrants had brought 'shame on Africa'...

The presidential hopefuls who rallied round Mbeki at the party conference – Mlambo-Ngcuka Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota – appear to have lost out totally...

National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete a Zuma ally replaces Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota as head of the committee for parliamentary and government appointments and for discipline among party legislators...

Mbeki’s favoured contenders are Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota and Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka; they lost momentum by failing to win backing at the party conference...