Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu

Mbeki who is said to favour a female successor has appointed women as high-profile Ministers for Public-Sector Workers (Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi) Education (Naledi Pandor) and Housing (Lindiwe Sisulu)...

Of 28 cabinet ministers twelve are women (9 in the last cabinet): Thoko Didiza (Agriculture & Land) Ivy Matsepe Casaburri (Communications) Naledi Pandor (Education) Dlamini-Zuma Manto Tshabalala-Msimang (Health) Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula (Home Affairs) Lindiwe Sisulu (Housing) Bridgette Mabandla (Justice) Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (Mines) Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi (Public Service) Stella Sigcau (Public Works) and Buyi Sonjica (Water)...

Other upwardly mobile ANC figures are Minerals and Energy Minister Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (married to Bulelani) Nosiviwe Mapise-Nqakula (wife of Charles Nqakula) Intelligence Minister Lindiwe Sisulu and assistant ANC Secretary General Sankie Mthembi-Mahanyele...

A year ago the former Intelligence Minister Joe Nhlanhla retired because of ill health and was replaced by the young Mbeki loyalist Lindiwe Sisulu...

Buthelezi blamed his deputy Lindiwe Sisulu to whom (he said) he had delegated all 'migration functions' till June...

Lindiwe Sisulu-Guma who chairs parliament's joint Standing Committee on Intelligence says he is shocked by the bugging allegations...