Mathews Phosa

Yet Motlanthe faces three competitors within the party ­ new ANC Treasurer Mathews Phosa, business tycoon Tokyo Sexwale and former ANC Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa...

The leading contenders are Mathews Phosa, Cyril Ramaphosa and Tokyo Sexwale, all of whom would use their elections to the ANC National Executive as a base from which to launch presidential campaigns...

One re-emerging figure is Mathews Phosa, formerly Premier of Mpumalanga and head of the ANC's legal department...

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...

The law governing the NPA has been questioned by the ANC's former legal advisor, Mathews Phosa, once Premier of Mpumalanga...

This week, the ANCYL national body announced that it would nominate Zuma for president of both the party and the nation at the December conference, with Motlanthe for deputy president, Gwede Mantashe for secretary general, Mbete as his deputy, Dlamini-Zuma as national chairwoman and, as treasurer, former Mpumalanga Province Premier Mathews Phosa, a rival of Mbeki’s...

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...

That worried contenders such as the former Premier of Gauteng Province, Tokyo Sexwale, former ANC General Secretary Cyril Ramaphosa and former Mpumalanga Premier Mathews Phosa...

Rootman was formerly an advisor to Mpumalanga Provincial Governor Matthews Phosa...

Yet in 2001 he survived an attempt by Mbeki loyalists to implicate him, along with Tokyo Sexwale, former Premier of Gauteng Province, and Matthews Phosa, former Premier of Mpumalanga, in an absurd 'plot' to unseat Mbeki; it was Mandela who intervened and scotched the clumsy move...