Baleka Mbete

But the left wants Blade Nzimande the SA Communist Party's General Secretary as deputy president; his rival is Baleka Mbete ANC Chairwoman and Deputy President...

Zuma and his more militant supporters had wanted former Parliamentary Speaker and ANC Chairwoman Baleka Mbete as Interim President...

Then he planned for the appointment of his ally Baleka Mbete as interim president...

Baleka Mbete Chairwoman of the African National Congress says: ‘anybody who is thinking of going off and forming another party is wasting their energy’...

National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete a Zuma ally replaces Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota as head of the committee for parliamentary and government appointments and for discipline among party legislators...

Zuma's top-six list consists of Zuma for ANC president; ANC Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe for deputy president; SACP Chairman Gwede Mantashe for secretary general; parliamentary Speaker Baleka Mbete for deputy secretary general; former Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa for treasurer; and Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma as party chairperson...

They are: Mbeki Foreign Minister Dlamini-Zuma National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete Public Works Minister Thoko Didiza Gauteng former Safety and Security chief Jesse Duarte ANC former Deputy Secretary General Thenjiwe Mtintso and Phoebe Potgieter for Women’s League General Secretary...

Spirits were hardly dampened least of all those of sacked Deputy President Jacob Zuma who was given red carpet treatment by Speaker Baleka Mbete of the kind usually accorded to visiting heads of state...

Baleka Mbete: born 1949 in the mid-1970s she left to live in Swaziland Tanzania Botswana Zimbabwe and Zambia...