{"id":15524,"date":"2012-10-12T17:50:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/motlanthe-keeps-south-africa-guessing-on-presidency-bid\/"},"modified":"2012-10-12T17:50:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T15:50:17","slug":"motlanthe-keeps-south-africa-guessing-on-presidency-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/motlanthe-keeps-south-africa-guessing-on-presidency-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Motlanthe keeps South Africa guessing on presidency bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Deputy president seen as main Zuma challenger<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Cryptic&#8221; Motlanthe plays the crowd, but gives little away<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Six more weeks of speculation likely<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Cropley<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 12 (Reuters) &#8211; If it was a declaration of<br \/>\na bid to become president of South Africa, it was a very strange<br \/>\none.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After weeks of speculation that he is lining up a challenge<br \/>\nto President Jacob Zuma in an African National Congress (ANC)<br \/>\nleadership election in December, Deputy President Kgalema<br \/>\nMotlanthe attracted a packed house at the launch of an official<br \/>\nbiography on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To the hundreds of supporters jammed into the auditorium at<br \/>\nJohannesburg&#8217;s Wits University, his remarks were affirmation<br \/>\nthat Motlanthe is taking up the mantle of an &#8220;Anyone But Zuma&#8221;<br \/>\ncampaign dividing the ruling party in Africa&#8217;s biggest economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>To the less partisan observer, his comments were more<br \/>\nnotable for their obscurity and ambiguity, even by the standards<br \/>\nof a 100-year-old liberation movement with a habit of talking in<br \/>\ncode forged in the long underground struggle against apartheid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Foregoing the chance to comment on the labour unrest<br \/>\nsweeping through the mining sector, Motlanthe &#8211; once head of the<br \/>\nbiggest mining union &#8211; instead embarked on a rambling anecdote<br \/>\nabout alternative learning techniques that he had seen this week<br \/>\non an official visit to a school in Italy.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Deputy president seen as main Zuma challenger * &#8220;Cryptic&#8221; Motlanthe plays the crowd, but gives little away * Six more weeks of speculation likely By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG, Oct 12 (Reuters) &#8211; If it was a declaration of a bid to become president of South Africa, it was a very strange one. After weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}