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Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

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


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The year of the dragon, again

Vice-President Kgalema Motlanthe was in Beijing at the time signing multibillion-dollar deals which did nothing to dispel this impression...


Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Erdogan was in South Africa in October for talks with President Jacob Zuma and Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe...


High unit costs

Zuma's friends perceive Hofmeyr as supportive of the main rival candidate Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe...


Selling the state

The ANC’s Deployment Committee chaired by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe influences the appointment of state company boards and chief executives so ANC cadres usually get those jobs...


The gloves are off

Zuma we hear will probably launch an assault on Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe whom Malema has been pushing to challenge Zuma for the national presidency but who has not yet declared himself...


Malema and Zuma mass their armies

Plans for a post-Zuma era Zuma’s main rivals Tokyo Sexwale and Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe are trying to fix it so that Motlanthe would be a one-term president Sexwale would be his deputy and Paul Mashatile Gauteng’s provincial leader and Premier would be ANC national chairman...


Disrespect for the President

They do not say openly that they want to replace him with their candidate his deputy Kgalema Motlanthe but they have publicly called for Secretary General Mantashe to be replaced by Fikile Mbalula a former ANCYL President who is now Sports Minister...


Foreign policy flip-flops

Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe has privately expressed reservations about Zuma’s ‘uncritical’ embrace of the Chinese giant; he argues that South Africa should emulate Brazil and India whose model of economic development includes democracy unlike China’s...


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