Steve Vukhile Tshwete

In the 1990s a former ANC Youth League leader (and Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism) Peter Mokaba used the Kill the Boer slogan in public to the chagrin of ANC moderates and leaders like Nelson Mandela and the late Steve Tshwete...

In 2001 Ramaphosa and two other ANC grandees Tokyo Sexwale and Mathews Phosa were accused by the Police Minister Steve Tshwete a close ally of Mbeki of masterminding a plot to unseat him before the 2004 national elections...

In 2001 Mbeki endorsed his Police Minister Steve Tshwete when the latter publicly accused Ramaphosa and two other leading ANC members Tokyo Sexwale and Matthews Phosa of a plot to unseat the President and 'endanger Mbeki's life'...

Mosiuoa (formerly Patrick) 'Terror' Lekota (now Defence Minister) won the national chairpersonship with support from Cosatu and SACP delegates against the Mbeki-backed candidate Steve Tshwete...

No significant reshuffle is expected after the death last month of one enforcer Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete...

After the late Steve Tshwete's allegations last year of a plot against Mbeki Zuma was persuaded to state publicly his lack of interest in challenging him at the polls...

The Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete is not known for political finesse...

But mistrust again arose when Steve Tshwete the Safety and Security Minister hammered the Portuguese community for a protest march against crime and a highly critical letter to President Thabo Mbeki...

The new gung-ho anti-crime strategy comes from Steve Tshwete who succeeded the cautious Sydney Mufamadi as Minister of Safety and Security in June last year...

However Steve Tshwete the new Safety and Security Minister says PAGAD now operates on a small cell system and informants are scarce...