Kgalema Motlanthe

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rdf:langString Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

rdf:langString Motlanthe in 2009

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rdf:langString the Wizard

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rdf:langString Politician

rdf:langString anti-apartheid activist

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rdf:langString Deputy President of South Africa

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rdf:langString Chairperson of the African National Congress Electoral Committee

rdf:langString Jacob Zuma

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rdf:langString Cyril Ramaphosa

rdf:langString Baleka Mbete

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rdf:langString But comrades, revolution is deliberate. Revolution is never by accident – revolution is deliberate and it is methodical. And so it is important that we must always test whether we are organised correctly to advance the revolution.

rdf:langString Recently I read an article where one comrade said the alliance is dead. People are exposing themselves… they are politically bankrupt. They left on their own because they thought it was nice out there. It is cold out there. Some of them were general secretaries but today they are criticising the ANC. They kept quiet while they were still in the ANC, they only got wisdom after they had left. If they say the ANC is weak, they must have weakened it.

rdf:langString Mine is not the desire to deviate from what is working. It is not for me to reinvent policy. Nor do I intend to reshape either cabinet or the public service. In a turbulent global economy, we will remain true to the policies that have kept South Africa steady, and that have ensured sustained growth.

rdf:langString The very first meeting we had, I was struck by his analytical capabilities and powers and by his disciplined approach to everything. Here was someone who had great dignity and humility.

rdf:langString It was about ensuring that the ANC continues to have faith in the process of elections as an instrument which is meant to strengthen the organisation. Once you do away with elections in an organisation and you arrange leadership, how else are you going to say the country elections are important?

rdf:langString [T]he question that we must answer is where is the ANC?… When elected leaders at the highest level openly engage in factionalist activity, where is the movement that aims to unite the people of South Africa for the complete liberation of the country from all forms of discrimination and national oppression? When money changes hands in the battle for personal power and aggrandizement, where is the movement that is built around a membership that joins without motives of material advantage and personal gain?… When lists favoured by a chosen grouping are rammed down the throats of branches, without the benefit of political discussion, where is the ANC?

rdf:langString — Zuma responds, obliquely, to Motlanthe's 2015 claim that the Tripartite Alliance was dead

rdf:langString — Motlanthe, exhibiting characteristic moderation

rdf:langString — Motlanthe explains his reasons for challenging Zuma, July 2013

rdf:langString — Ramaphosa recalls meeting Motlanthe in 1987

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rdf:langString Gugu Mtshali

rdf:langString Cyril Ramaphosa

rdf:langString Kgalema Motlanthe

rdf:langString General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers

rdf:langString Secretary-General of the African National Congress

rdf:langString Deputy President of the African National Congress

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rdf:langString Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe (Tswana pronunciation: [ˈkxɑ.le.mɑ mʊ.ˈtɬʼɑ.n.tʰɛ]; born 19 July 1949) is a South African politician who was South Africa's third president between 25 September 2008 and 9 May 2009, following Thabo Mbeki’s resignation. Thereafter, he was deputy president under Jacob Zuma until 26 May 2014. Raised in Soweto in the former Transvaal after his family was forcibly removed from Alexandra, Motlanthe was recruited into Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), after he finished high school. Between 1977 and 1987, he was imprisoned on Robben Island under the Terrorism Act for his anti-apartheid activism. Upon his release, he joined the influential National Union of Mineworkers, where he was general secretary between 1992 and early 1998. After the end of apartheid, he ascended from the trade union movement to the national leadership of the ruling ANC, serving as ANC secretary general from late 1997 to late 2007. He was elected ANC deputy president, on a slate aligned to Zuma, by the ANC’s 2007 Polokwane conference. In mid-2008, he was sworn in as a Member of Parliament and as Mbeki’s second Minister in the Presidency – his first job in government. Only weeks later, on 25 September 2008, Parliament elected him national president after Mbeki resigned at the ANC’s request. Motlanthe was widely understood to be a compromise candidate and to be leading a caretaker administration until the 2009 national election. During his seven and a half months as president, he appeared to prioritise stability and continuity with the policies of the previous administration. However, on his first day in office, he replaced Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang with Barbara Hogan, effecting a break with Mbeki's HIV/AIDS policy, which had been criticised as ineffective and driven by denialism. He also made controversial changes at the National Prosecuting Authority, dismissing the National Director of Public Prosecutions, Vusi Pikoli, and assenting to legislation which disbanded the Scorpions, an elite anti-corruption unit. Zuma was elected president in May 2009, and Motlanthe was appointed his deputy. In December 2012, under pressure from Zuma's opponents, he contested the ANC presidential elections at the party’s Mangaung conference. Zuma, the incumbent, won in a landslide. Motlanthe declined to seek re-election to the ANC National Executive Committee, and had already declined a nomination for re-election as ANC deputy president. Having thus vacated the party leadership, he resigned from government and from Parliament in May 2014, at the end of his term as national deputy president. Variously and at various times perceived as an ally of each of the other living presidents – Mbeki, Zuma, and his trade union colleague Cyril Ramaphosa – Motlanthe was reputed to be "a highly skilled political operator" by the time he became president. However, he has always kept a low public and political profile. He is seen as holding broad respect in the ANC, and is frequently characterised as one of its preeminent "left-leaning intellectual[s]."

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