Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki

As all factions cast around for solutions to the knotty problem of the succession some ANC leaders outside the Zuma-Ramaphosa battleground want former Deputy ANC President Kgalema Motlanthe to take the presidency on an interim basis just as he did when Zuma defeated Thabo Mbeki for the ANC presidency at the 2007 Polokwane Conference (AC Vol 48 No 25 'Unstoppable tsunami')...

At a fringe event former President Thabo Mbeki present throughout the Mining Indaba expressed surprise that Mining Minister Mosebenzi Zwane had attended only the first day of the meeting while his deputy left the following day without resolving questions over the government's new mining charter...

Also close to Dlamini-Zuma is Zanele Dlamini Mbeki the wife of former President Thabo Mbeki...

As President Zuma had rewarded the former chief of the South African National Defence Force with a cabinet post for supporting him in the battle to topple President Thabo Mbeki...

They intend to confront the current ANC leadership backed by the Nelson Mandela Foundation the Thabo Mbeki Foundation the Oliver Tambo Foundation and the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation...

Pushing Thabo Mbeki from the presidency and expelling the ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema who now heads the fast-rising Economic Freedom Fighters greatly damaged the party...

Something similar happened in 1992 when Walter Sisulu was brought in as Deputy President to forestall a damaging contest between Chris Hani and Thabo Mbeki...

The Western Cape ANC had been divided since the Polokwane Conference in 2007 when Zuma replaced Thabo Mbeki as party leader...

Ironically she was also unofficially banned from reporting on air after President Thabo Mbeki was ousted at the ANC's Polokwane Conference in 2007 (AC Vol 48 No 25 'Unstoppable tsunami')...

Driving those investigations are the effects of the commodity price crash which has sharply cut state revenue in resource-rich countries and the campaign led by South African ex-President Thabo Mbeki to staunch the illicit financial flows from Africa (see Chart) which his United Nations-backed investigation says are running at over US$60 billion a year...

Among them are former ANC Presidents Thabo Mbeki and Kgalema Motlanthe the Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu foundations as well as the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation headed by one of the last three survivors of Nelson Mandela's Rivonia Trial group Ahmed 'Kathy' Kathrada...