ANC veterans cover a wide range of former officials many of whom have moved into business such as Trevor Manuel Maria Ramos Tito Mboweni Mcebisi Jonas and Cheryl Carolus and others such as former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe and Frank Chikane Director-General of the Presidency under Mbeki...

Mbatha was also a special advisor to former President Kgalema Motlanthe during his short stint as interim president between the presidencies of Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma...

We hear that a group of former Directors General including Frank Chikane and former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe are sounding alarms about the country's direction...

On 22 November Kgalema Motlanthe the ANC's head of the elections announced the names of those who will be on the ballot for the top six ANC jobs at the party's elective conference...

Instead of endorsing a candidate the newly elected provincial executive committee has been visiting ANC leaders including former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe...

Former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe are his main sounding boards we hear although he had a formidable circle of advisors from the private sector civil society and academia...

Out of respect rather than political sympathy former presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe joined Ramaphosa at the requiem mass for Tutu in Cape Town...

There has been some discussion of trying to revive an AU committee set up by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in November last year consisting of Joaquim Chissano Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and Kgalema Motlanthe – former presidents of Mozambique Liberia and South Africa respectively – to facilitate negotiations between the parties...

A year ago Abiy ignored the advice of the AU's delegation of three former presidents – Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano South Africa's Kgalema Motlanthe and Liberia's Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf – to negotiate with Tigray's leaders...