Fikile April Mbalula

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...

Mashatile and Fikile Mbalula are the frontrunners...

They are the ambitious and vocal Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula who backs up the president and whose job it is to promote unity among the factions and ANC chair and Mining and Petroleum Minister Gwede Mantashe who reached out to the populist MK and EFF parties in a failed bid go bring them into the GNU fold...