Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

In contrast Ramaphosa ally and former President Kgalema Motlanthe was not nominated at all while other key ANC members such as former Finance Minister Trevor Manuel now a leading business executive declined nomination...

These requests were denied by former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe the chair of the commission and the interviews were heard in public...

A high-level ANC committee on land distribution led by the former President Kgalema Motlanthe recommended a 'review' of the Ingonyama Trust and similar arrangements...

As a result there is an outside chance that a unity candidate such as former President Kgalema Motlanthe could win the day from the floor if delegates become consumed by the prospect of a divided party losing its majority in the 2019 national poll...

HeavyweightsFuture South Africa has the backing of the foundations set up by the late President Nelson Mandela his confidant Ahmed Mohamed 'Kathy' Kathrada who died in March and former ANC leader Oliver Tambo; Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu; and three former state presidents FW de Klerk Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe...

It includes Gordhan his former deputy Mcebisi Jonas ex-President Kgalema Motlanthe and prominent figures from business churches and academia...

As all factions cast around for solutions to the knotty problem of the succession some ANC leaders outside the Zuma-Ramaphosa battleground want former Deputy ANC President Kgalema Motlanthe to take the presidency on an interim basis just as he did when Zuma defeated Thabo Mbeki for the ANC presidency at the 2007 Polokwane Conference (AC Vol 48 No 25 'Unstoppable tsunami')...

Although Mantashe didn't name them we understand from other ANC sources that the contenders break down as follows: • Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma Chairperson of the African Union Commission: due to return home in January to run for the ANC presidency; • Baleka Mbete Speaker of Parliament: unambiguously pro-Zuma; • Cyril Ramaphosa Deputy President: the successor favoured by the ruling hierarchy; backed by business and trying to broaden his appeal to grassroots; • Zweli Mkhize ANC Treasurer General: former Premier of KwaZulu-Natal province with the highest ANC membership; • Kgalema Motlanthe former interim President of the ANC and the country: lost to Zuma in a bid for the party presidency in 2012 and has become an outspoken critic of his rule; and • Lindiwe Sisulu Minister for Human Settlements: former Chief of Staff in Zuma's Presidency...

Meanwhile the Parliamentary Speaker and ANC Chairperson Baleka Mbete a former Deputy President under Kgalema Motlanthe is being suggested as another leading female candidate...

Former ANC President Kgalema Motlanthe and ex-Finance Minister Trevor Manuel were just two of the many senior figures present...