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...

' It's far from clear whether the new system which will be presided over by former president and head of the ANC Electoral Commission Kgalema Motlanthe will lead to more democracy or more conflict in local politics...

In Free State province where Magashule is facing trial with 11 others on 70 counts of fraud and racketeering former President Kgalema Motlanthe has been mandated to mediate in a four-year stand-off between the factions...

Ramaphosa is also working with former Presidents Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe who have kept up the pressure up on Magashule (AC Vol 62 No 7 Ramaphosa rallies ANC against the Zuma-Magashule axis)...

In November 2017 a High-Level Panel appointed by Parliament and under the chairmanship of former President Kgalema Motlanthe declared the 1994 Ingonyama Trust Act (ITA) unconstitutional and recommended that it either be repealed or amended...

Two former Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe are calling for Magashule to step aside...

To counter that Ramaphosa has appointed former Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to run the party's election campaign...