Frans Tlokwe Maserumule (born 6 June 1955) is a South African politician and former

anti-apartheid activist The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), was a British organisation that was at the centre of the international movement opposing the South African apartheid, apartheid system and supporting South Africa's non-White population who were persecuted by ...

. He represented the

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(ANC) in the

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, serving the

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constituency, from 1999 to 2009 and later from 2010 to 2014. Moses Seletisha's Sepedi-language biography of Maserumule, ''Tšhutšhumakgala – Tša Bophelo bja Tlokwe Frans Maserumule'', won the 2017 South African Literary Award for best debut work.

Anti-apartheid activism

During

apartheid Apartheid (, especially South African English: , ; , "aparthood") was a system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was ...

, Maserumule was a member of the outlawed ANC and its military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). In 2000, the

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granted him amnesty in respect of his actions during an MK attack on a

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counter-insurgency base at

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in 1982.

Legislative career

Maserumule served two consecutive terms in the National Assembly from 1999 to 2009, gaining election in

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and

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

. During this time, there was a minor scandal in 2008 when

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reported that he had been removed from an airplane, apparently after a drunken argument with another passenger. Though not initially re-elected to his seat in the 2009 general election, Maserumule later returned to the National Assembly for a final term from 2010 to 2014, joining on 29 July 2010 to fill a casual vacancy.

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* Living people 1955 births African National Congress politicians 21st-century South African politicians 20th-century South African politicians Members of the National Assembly of South Africa Anti-apartheid activists UMkhonto we Sizwe personnel {{DEFAULTSORT:Maserumule, Tlokwe