Introducing your new President. About whom you'd probably heard nothing until 2 months ago. Unless you're on the ANC mailing list, happened to be passing through Polokwane, or were hurling chairs and mooning people at the ANCYL conference a few months back.
This is probably a good thing though, because as someone smart once said, the kind of person you'd want to lead your country, is probably not the kind of person who'd be ambitious enough to publicly and eagerly run for president. On second thought, I might have just made that up.
In the interests of promoting democracy and an increasing knowledgeable electorate we though we'd bring you a few fun facts about the new Commander-in-nKhosi, Kgalema Motlanthe (not all of these are made-up, bonus points for spotting the false ones)
1) His first name is Petrus
2) He is widely regarded as the brains behind Jacob Zuma coup de'tat (some way behind one would imagine)
3) He enjoys long walks on the beach
4)He is a major shareholder of an investment company which recieved an R800 million l0an from the Land Bank, and promptly misplaced it.
5) Motlanthe is the youngest of 13 children. His exact date of birth is unknown, but he is believed to be about 58.
6) He might well be the SA's best hope, but we'll see.
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