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Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

Date of Birth: 19 July 1949
Place of Birth: Alexandra township, Johannesburg


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ANC wields the long knives

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


Guns, jobs and strikes

’ 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...


Ramaphosa’s price

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...


Purges and placements

The pro-Kgalema Motlanthe African National Congress leaders have been purged from the National Executive Committee (NEC)...


The party isn’t over yet

On the face of it Zuma’s win at Mangaung – he scored 2 983 votes against 991 for the challenger national Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe – suggested he had won back the confidence of the party after the crisis-ridden start to 2012...


Zuma leaves nothing to chance

They will be on the look-out for anyone intent on disruption but their real mission is to identify and neutralise anyone attempting to swing the vote for ANC Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe as party leader say ANC sources...


Zuma sweeps the boards

His advisors say the SOEs often ignore his government’s objectives behave too independently and include too many supporters of ex-President Thabo Mbeki or Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe...


Zuma or else

His opponents Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe and Human Settlements Minister Tokyo Sexwale have failed to build the necessary momentum...


Zuma’s campaign pays off

African National Congress leaders are trying to stitch together a deal that would avoid a contest for the party Presidency between incumbent Jacob Zuma and Vice-President Kgalema Motlanthe at the party’s conference on 16-20 December in Mangaung (Bloemfontein)...


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