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Wed Jun 19 00:04:22 SAST 2013

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Branches choose Motlanthe as ANC leader

Sapa | 11 November, 2012 11:2617 Comments
KGALEMA MOTLANTHE. File photo.

The branches of senior ANC leaders close to President Jacob Zuma have nominated his opponent, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, as ANC leader, according to a report.

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The Sunday Times reports that Motlanthe was nominated by branch 42 in Boksburg, whose membership includes ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe. He received an "overwhelming" 90 votes to Zuma's seven, according to the weekly.

Cape Town's Gaby Shapiro branch also chose Motlanthe.

SA Communist Party deputy general secretary Jeremy Cronin, who is also public works deputy minister, belongs to the branch, as does Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk.

Both left the meeting shortly before nominations began, the paper reported.

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Branches choose Motlanthe as ANC leader

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Sasha*-Fierce

Posted 218 days ago
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Nominations by only 1,002% of the Branches means absolutely nothing! The fact that Gwede, Schalkwyk and Cronin are falling within those Branches does not either suggests or stress the fact that Gwede and those two comrades are as well plotting Zuma's downfall, the article its self seems to be holding less water, if no water at all, to be honest and fair!

ThukzetThulani

Posted 218 days ago
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True Sasha , this are prophets of the doom , always reporting negative things that we don't wanna hear as a nation, tell us good things about our beloved country !!!!
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buddi

Posted 218 days ago
Maybe it's difficult to find something good to report on. In any case, why would Motlanthe's election by bad news?
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SuiGeneris

Posted 218 days ago
buddi

My guess is that that most of the masses are totally unaware of the negative reporting on the government or ANC or are not in the least perturbed by it.
65 % of them casting their votes for the ANC is proof of this.

About Motlanthe.....ABZ

Loggenberg

Posted 218 days ago
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Irrespective of who comes out walking from Mangaung, a crab stays a crab. I cannot think of anyone who believes the ANC can do better than what it's doing now.
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SuiGeneris

Posted 218 days ago
''We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. - Stephen Vincent Benet.
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SuiGeneris

Posted 218 days ago
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. - Stephen Vincent Benet.

So True !!!
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Loggenberg

Posted 218 days ago
''We thought, because we voted , we had power: Loggenberg

Mike123

Posted 218 days ago
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Well, after Zuma, we can only improve. Oh! Hang on! I forgot about Malema!

m1si2zi3nzo4

Posted 218 days ago
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Nothing will remain "after Zuma." As Napoleon once said; "After me, the deluge."

UDFSupporter

Posted 218 days ago
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What a choice .... an incumbent with more wives and lovers than brains or someone with no backbone who has made sitting on the fence a new Olympic sport. We deserve what we vote for.
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Sasha*-Fierce

Posted 218 days ago
I believe that our leaders need INTERNET Connection upstairs! That is their missing and weakling link!

SuiGeneris

Posted 218 days ago
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''......I believe that our leaders need INTERNET Connection upstairs! That is their missing and weakling link!.....''

This would explain why commenting is so slow today.

One can therefore also assume that most of the comments come from government offices.
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Sasha*-Fierce

Posted 218 days ago
Sui
Internet is one of the cleverest tools of the technological and communications fraternity, that initiative creative capability and capacity is lacking within our leaders! That is to say, if our leaders were working as effective and clever as internet does, we will have a far much better government to be proud of! I might be a government official but if they dismiss me tomorrow, it will not make any difference to my personal life!

Cam88

Posted 218 days ago
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Well I’ve been reading these comments 4 some time now, interested in what other South Africans views are with regards to this country’s and other affairs in general., but what I’ve noted is that more than 80% of the ppl commenting here are either very angry, frustrated filled with hatred individuals with no actual valued adding views to the story at hand “wish they would just cancel themselves and find another hobby”

ANC is always portrayed as the villain…I’m starting to think some of these guys feed on this hate for ANC and 4 some just purely hate black ppl in general…

As 4 the story at hand….I think Mothlante will make a better alternative compared to the current commander in chief considering these no other challenging 4 the post regardless of him being spineless and all.
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Patsekg

Posted 217 days ago
Cam88, i beg to disagree with you here. The same Motlanthe you are talking about is living with someone's wife, not his. That's if you want to use the issue of morality to compare him with JZ. If you want to use Marikana i have this to say, When Marikana took place JZ was in Mozambique and Motlanthe was right here in the country, that means as deputy president, the country was left under his leadership while JZ was still attending to other issues in Mozambique. The question which you need to ask yourself is, what action did he take after those people were killed by the police? Everyone is saying there's a leadership crises in this country but they don't want to say the same about Motlanthe who is part of this leadership crisis. Let us not be selective in our analysis of leadership in this country. As much as i believe JZ cannot lead, i also don't think Motlanthe can, he is not bold enough to can take tough decisions, while JZ is bold but his issues of rape and impregnating a daughter of his friend has not done him any good. I say we rather have JZ for second term but he must step down and give way to Ramaphosa, he has done enough damage.

Patsekg

Posted 217 days ago
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Sasha, these guys have got nothing to write about, why don't they report about what is happenning in Limpopo where Motlanthe is trailing JZ in terms of deligates? One of my fellow comrades has sent me the results via sms and JZ is standing at 56% while Motlanthe is at 44%.
They choose to ignore what is happenning there because they are dissapointed things are not going their way. It is crystal clear that JZ will never be challenged in Mangaung, when last did you here about Malema? Is he waiting for a tragedy to happen somewhere so that he can jump and use the dead bodies for his own political gains? South African Media is a disgrace, they always want to get themselves involve into the internal battles of the ANC and take sides rather than to give us a balanced reporting. JZ is still going to make them eat humble pies.