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Chief Whip Of The Majority Party
The Chief Whip of the Majority Party is an official office bearer in the National Assembly of South Africa. , Pemmy Majodina of the African National Congress (ANC) serves as the Chief Whip of the Majority Party. She is the second woman to hold the office. Appointment After being nominated by the majority party in the National Assembly, the speaker approves the appointment. Functions Although elections to the National Assembly are held using a system of proportional representation and Members of Parliament of the majority party are expected to vote in the desired way of party leadership, the position of Chief Whip was retained. The Chief Whip of the Majority Party oversees the whipping system of the majority party and ensures that Members of Parliament belonging to the majority party attend plenary sessions and vote on legislation in the National Assembly. The Chief Whip, in discussion with the Chief Whip of the largest opposition party, is responsible for the programme of the Nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Assembly Of South Africa
The National Assembly is the directly elected house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape. It consists of four hundred members who are elected every five years using a party-list proportional representation system where half of the members are elected proportionally from nine provincial lists and the remaining half from national lists so as to restore proportionality. The National Assembly is presided over by a Speaker, assisted by a Deputy Speaker. The current Speaker is Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula who previously served as the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans. She was elected on 19 August 2021. The Deputy Speaker is Solomon Lechesa Tsenoli who has served in the post since his election on 21 May 2014. The National Assembly chamber was destroyed in a fire in January 2022. National Assembly sittings will now be held in the old Good Hope Chamber, which is within the precincts of parliament. Allocation The National Assembly seats are allocated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathi Nhleko
Nkosinathi Phiwayinkosi Thamsanqa Nhleko (born 10 October 1964) is a South African politician and former trade unionist from KwaZulu-Natal. He was the Minister of Police and Minister of Public Works in the second cabinet of President Jacob Zuma. After he was sacked from the cabinet in 2018, he served as a backbencher in the National Assembly until the 2019 general election. Raised in Empangeni, Nhleko rose to prominence as the general secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union from 1989 to 1993. He was elected to the first post-apartheid Parliament in May 1994 and represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly until September 2005. During that time, he served as Chief Whip of the Majority Party from 2002 to 2004. From 2005 to 2014, he took a hiatus from legislative politics to work in business and public administration, including as correctional services commissioner in Kwa-Zulu-Natal and as director-general in the Department of Labour. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Mthembu
Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu (5 June 1958 – 21 January 2021) was a South African politician who served as Minister in the Presidency of South Africa's government, and as a parliamentarian for the African National Congress (ANC). Previously, he served as the Whip of Parliament for the ruling ANC as well as the national spokesperson for the ANC. Early life Mthembu was born in Witbank on 5 June 1958. His mother was Nantoni Mthembu. Political career Mthembu served as the MEC for Transport in Mpumalanga from 1997 to 1999, during which he was criticized for spending R2.3 million on ten BMWs. Mthembu was elected to National Assembly of South Africa in 2014 where he served till his death in 2021. On 28 November 2017, some of Mthembu's ANC colleagues criticised him for "colluding" with the DA to schedule a debate on state capture in Parliament in defiance of President Jacob Zuma and his colleagues in the ANC caucus who had already called for a more inclusive process to investigate st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stone Sizani
Phumelele Stone Sizani (born 2 March 1954) is a South African politician who was, until his resignation on 2 March 2016, a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa and the African National Congress Chief Whip. It has been reported that upon leaving Parliament his next post will be South African Ambassador to Germany. Early life At the age of 18 he was arrested and sent to Robben Island as a political prisoner, where he remained incarcerated from 1978–1980. He graduated with an MA in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia in 1995, where he was a Chevening Scholar The Chevening Scholarship is an international scholarship, funded by the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, that lets foreign students with leadership qualities study at universities in the United Kingdom. History The Chevening Scholarship .... References 1954 births Living people Alumni of the University of East Anglia Members of the National Assembly of South Africa African Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathole Motshekga
Mathole Serofo Motshekga (born 2 April 1949) is a South African lawyer and politician who was elected to his third consecutive term as a Member of Parliament in the 2019 general election. He formerly represented his political party, the African National Congress (ANC), as the second Premier of Gauteng. Born in what is now Limpopo province, Motshekga was an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa during apartheid and also taught law at the University of South Africa. In September 1997, he was elected Provincial Chairperson of the ANC in Gauteng; he succeeded Tokyo Sexwale as Premier in January 1998. However, after the 1999 general election, newly elected President Thabo Mbeki asked Motshekga to resign as Premier. In subsequent years Motshekga served as a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and was Chief Whip of the Majority Party in the National Assembly from 2009 until 2013, when he was demoted to an ordinary seat in Parliament. He was also elected to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mnyamezeli Booi
Mnyamezeli Shedrack "Nyami" Booi (born 15 October 1958) is a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2019. During that time he served as Chief Whip of the Majority Party from October 2008 to April 2009 and as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans from June 2009 to October 2010. A former anti-apartheid activist, Booi served on the ANC National Executive Committee between 2007 and 2012. He was convicted of fraud in 2009 in relation to the Travelgate scandal, and in 2019 he was reprimanded in Parliament for violating parliamentary rules about the disclosure of external financial interests. Early life and activism Booi was born on 15 October 1958. During his youth he was involved in anti-apartheid activism, first through the Black Consciousness-aligned South African Students' Movement and later through the ANC underground; he was detained for his political activities. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathi Mthethwa
Emmanuel Nkosinathi "Nathi" Mthethwa is a South African politician who has served as Minister of Arts and Culture since February 2014. He was appointed again in 2019 for his second term, taking also the portfolio of Sport under his wing. He also previously served as Minister for Safety and Security (later known as Minister of Police) from 2008 to 2014 and as the Chief Whip for the African National Congress in the National Assembly. He is from Kwambonambi, KwaZulu-Natal. Marikana mineworkers' strike Mthethwa was South Africa's Minister of Police at the time of the August 2012 Marikana Massacre, the most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since 1976. The Marikana Commission of Inquiry led by judge Ian Farlam mentioned Mthethwa's role in the incident several times. Mthethwa told the Commission in 2014: "What I know is that as the political head at the time, I’d have been responsible for all the things the police were doing". In its officia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isaac Mogase
Isaac Mogase (25 January 1934 – 27 April 2021) was the first post-apartheid mayor of Johannesburg. An anti-apartheid activist, he joined the ANC Youth League in the 1950s and was one of the leaders of the Soweto Crisis Committee in the 1980s. He was jailed numerous times for his political activities. Mogase later served as a member of the National Assembly of South Africa from 2004 till 2012. See also * Timeline of Johannesburg The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Johannesburg, in the Gauteng province of South Africa. 19th century * 1886 – Johannesburg township established by Boer government after discovery of gold in vicinity. * 1887 ** '' T ..., 2000s References African National Congress politicians Mayors of Johannesburg 2021 deaths 1934 births Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa {{Gauteng-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mbulelo Goniwe
Mbulelo Terence Goniwe (born 25 October 1958) is a South African politician, businessman and former anti-apartheid activist who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 1994 to 2006. He was Chief Whip of the Majority Party from June 2004 until December 2006, when he was expelled from the ANC and therefore from the National Assembly. Goniwe's expulsion was the result of an internal disciplinary process in which the ANC found him guilty of having sexually harassed his administrative assistant. The disciplinary process was re-run in 2007 and, though he was again found guilty, his ANC membership was reinstated. Afterwards he worked full-time as a businessman in the Eastern Cape. Early life and activism Goniwe was born on 25 October 1958. He was an anti-apartheid activist and a member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in Cradock in the former Cape Province. He was also the nephew of UDF leader Matthew Goniwe, one of the Cradock Four wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula
Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula (born 13 November 1956) is a South African politician who currently serves as the Speaker of the National Assembly as of 19 August 2021. She has previously held the office of Minister of Defence and Military Veterans from June 2012 to August 2021. She was also the Minister of Home Affairs from 2004 to 2009 and Minister of Correctional Services from 2009 to 2012. Early life and education Mapisa-Nqakula obtained a primary teacher's diploma from the Bensonvale Teachers College. Career In 1984, she left South Africa to undergo military training in Angola and the Soviet Union. During this time she served as the head of a commission that was set up by the ANC to investigate desertions of ANC Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) members to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Angola. For several years she worked with political military structures within the ANC and was deployed to help rebuild ANC structures. In 1993, she became the Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pemmy Majodina
Pemmy Castelina Pamela Majodina (born 24 December 1968) is a South African politician serving as a Member of the National Assembly since 2019. A member of the African National Congress, she is the party's chief whip in the assembly. She was formerly a Member of the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature between 2004 and 2019 and a Member of the provincial Executive Council for five different portfolios from 2008 to 2019, respectively. Majodina was a permanent delegate to the National Council of Provinces from 1994 to 2004. Early life and education Majodina was born on 24 December 1968 in Sterkspruit, Cape Province. She studied to become an educator. Political career Majodina served on the regional executives, the provincial executives and the national executives of the South African Student Congress, the African National Congress Youth League, the African National Congress Women's League, the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress. She was also an undergrou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Yengeni
Tony Sithembiso Yengeni (born 11 October 1954) is a South African politician. He was an anti-Apartheid activist and joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1976 and later its armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe. From 1994 until 2003 he served as member of the South African parliament for the ruling ANC party, including service as their Chief Whip. In 2003, he was found guilty of fraud in a case linked to the corruption investigation into an arms deal, but he remained an ANC party stalwart. In 2018, he was made the chairperson of the ANC's crime and corruption committee. He was sentenced to four years in prison, but only served four months, for getting an unlawful discount on a Mercedes Benz he purchased. Yengeni was disqualified from standing for nomination as a candidate for a position in the National Executive Committee (NEC) in 2022 as a result of having been found guilty of fraud. ANC Government After apartheid ended, Yengeni assumed the post of secretary general of the ANC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |