Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

Mabe and Malema were previously part of the group favouring Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe that was agitating for presidential change...

Zuma spoke only of how he would 'take charge' of the Framework Agreement for a Sustainable Mining Industry which was being led by the former Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe...

But the Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) leadership favoured the anti-Zuma Paul Mashatile and David Makhura camp that is behind the ANC's Forces of Change faction which had campaigned for Kgalema Motlanthe to replace Zuma during the ANC's Mangaung Conference (AC Vol 54 No 15 Zuma's axe falls)...

Vice-President Kgalema Motlanthe retires from Parliament after the polls...

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and the Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane represented the government at Westminster Abbey...

Heroes and villainsDeputy President Kgalema Motlanthe cut a lonely figure as he stood behind Zuma during the singing of the national anthem...

Mathale had backed ANC Vice-President Kgalema Motlanthe's challenge for the party presidency and has been closely associated with the expelled ANC Youth League President Julius Malema...

Vice-President Kgalema Motlanthe himself was spared...

In March Zuma dissolved the leadership of the ANC Youth League which had supported the national Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe for the party presidency...

’ With the highest rate of unemployment in the 18-25 year age group – described by Zuma’s own deputy Kgalema Motlanthe as a ‘ticking bomb’ – expectations were that Zuma might announce a version of the youth wage subsidy first mooted in 2010...

A seat in the legislature will be found for the former trade union leader probably by purging one of the ANC members of parliament who supported Zuma’s losing rival ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe at the Mangaung conference...