Fikile April Mbalula

The most serious allegations concern notes of meetings between Kremlin ‘political technologist' Maxim Sokolov and African National Congress Secretary-General and presidential hopeful Fikile Mbalula along with his advisor Bongani Mbindwane...

Either of the leading internal contenders for the succession – Deputy President Paul Mashatile or Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula – risk hastening the party's descent say outsiders (AC Vol 67 No 5 Patrice Motsepe isn't running for the Presidency – but his campaign won't listen & Vol 67 No 6 Madlanga tests presidential power)...

But the campaign has rattled ANC Secretary General Fikile Mbalula who has repeatedly tried to quash any succession debate before local government elections later this year when the ANC is expected to suffer further losses after its poor 40% showing in the 2024 national poll (AC Vol 65 No 12 Choices get starker after the ANC vote crash)...

It is no secret within the ANC that Ramaphosa is unenthused about the current choices on offer for the party's next president: Vice-President Paul Mashatile or ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula...

ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula – though loyal to Ramaphosa – is widely regarded as over-zealous and an unconvincing leadership contender...

More combative officials and open critics of Trump such as ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula and Mining Minister Gwede Mantashe were kept out of the delegation to prevent a confrontation we understand...

Deputy President Paul Mashatile criticised Democratic Alliance (DA) ministers who opposed the budget saying they should be ‘ashamed' to remain in office while African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula called for a ‘reset'...

' Nel also knows two of the ANC presidential hopefuls Paul Mashatile and Fikile Mbalula...

The six-member national executive committee members including ANC National Chair Gwede Mantashe ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula and ANC Treasurer-General Gwen Ramokgopa spent a week in Cape Town visiting poorer areas such as Khayelitsha and Delft but avoided the Cape Flats areas of Mitchells Plain and Manenberg which are plagued by escalating gang violence and unemployment...

Having been out of the country for the past decade some believe she may be Ramaphosa's third-way choice to avoid a succession favouring Deputy President Paul Mashatile or ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula...

Lesufi and ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula both harbour presidential ambitions...