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'''Baleka Mbete''' (born [[24 September]] [[1949]], also Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile) is the Deputy President of [[South Africa]]. She was previously Speaker of the [[National Assembly of South Africa]] from 2004 to 2008. |
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==Teacher== |
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She received a teacher's certificate from [[Lovedale Teachers' College]] and taught in [[Durban]]. |
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==Politics== |
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After going into exile Mbete taught in [[Mbabane]], and went on to work for the [[African National Congress]] in several other African cities including [[Dar es Salaam]], [[Nairobi]], [[Gaborone]], [[Harare]], and [[Lusaka]]. |
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She led the [[Medu Art Ensemble]], was the secretary-general of [[ANC Women's League]] from 1991 to 1993, and the Deputy Speaker of the [[National Assembly of South Africa]] from 1996 to 2004. |
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Mbete was a member of the Presidential Panel on the [[Truth and Reconciliation Commission (South Africa)|Truth and Reconciliation Commission]], the [[National Executive Committee (African National Congress)|ANC National Executive Committee]],<ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/conf/conference51/nec.html |
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|title=National Executive Committee as elected at 51st national conference |
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|accessdate=2008-09-21 |
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|publisher=ANC}}</ref> and the [[Pan-African Parliament]]. |
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In 2007 Mbete became the ANC's national chairperson.<ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/pr/2007/pr1219.html |
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|title=Results for the election of ANC officials |
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|accessdate=2008-09-21 |
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|publisher=ANC}}</ref> |
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==Business== |
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Mbete is a shareholder in Dyambu Holdings<ref>{{cite news |
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|first=Kennedy |
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|last=Mudzuli |
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|title="Gravy train" elite slated |
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|url=http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=28171,1,22 |
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|publisher=The Citizen |
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|date=2006-11-27 |
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|accessdate=2008-09-21}}</ref> which is involved in building the massive [[Gautrain]] public transport project in the province [[Gauteng]]. Dyambu Holdings is reported to have had links with murdered magnate [[Brett Kebble]].<ref name="">{{cite news |
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|first=Wisani |
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|last=wa ka Ngobeni |
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|coauthors=Dominic Mahlangu and Dumisane Lubisi |
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|title=A finger in all the right pies |
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|url=http://www.thetimes.co.za/SpecialReports/Kebble/Article.aspx?id=298131 |
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|publisher=Sunday Times |
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|date=2007-03-06 |
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|accessdate=2008-09-21}}</ref> |
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==Controversies== |
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In April 1997, Mbete was found to have received an improperly issued driver's license but not charged with any wrongdoing<ref>[http://www.jstor.org/stable/162005 Accountable to Themselves: Predominance in Southern Africa.] Kenneth Good. ''The Journal of Modern African Studies'', Vol. 35, No. 4 (Dec., 1997), pp. 547-573.</ref>. This after investigators uncover widespread corruption in Mpumalanga regional driving license testing centers, where licenses are being issued in exchange for bribes<ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://www.globalintegrity.org/reports/2006/SOUTH%20AFRICA/timeline.cfm |
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|title=Global Integrity - South Africa Timeline |
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|publisher=Global Integrity}}</ref>. Mbete said that she had been "too busy" to stand in queues.<ref>{{cite news |
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|first=Michael |
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|last=Wines |
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|title=Driven insane in South Africa |
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|url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/29/america/journal.php?page=2 |
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|publisher=International Herald Tribune |
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|date=2007-10-29 |
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|accessdate=2008-09-21}}</ref> |
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In 2007, Mbete suspended DA member Mike Waters after he attempted to ask what was being done about the [[Manto Tshabalala-Msimang]] scandal <ref>{{cite web |
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|url=http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Politics/0,,2-7-12_2178504,00.html |
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|title=DA MP suspended |
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|date=2007-09-07 |
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|accessdate=2008-09-21}}</ref>. Waters had asked about a reported conviction for theft of the Minister of Health, while the latter had been a nurse in Botswana. |
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Mbete was one of more than 200 South African parliamentarians found to have misused subsidised travel privileges in the ''Travelgate'' scandal. She is reported to have paid back all moneys due in the liquidation of the travel agency former providing services to parliament. |
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In 2006, Mbete chartered a jet at a cost of R471 900 (around US$60 000) to fly to Liberia for the inauguration of [[Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf]] as president. The only other passenger on the plane was a member of her staff. Then president Thabo Mbeki and foreign minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma also travelled to the inauguration - Mbeki in his private plane and Dlamini-Zuma by commercial flight.<ref>{{cite news |
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|first=Nic |
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|last=Dawes |
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|title=Now the speaker joins the jet set |
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|url=http://www.mg.co.za/article/2006-03-24-now-the-speaker-joins-jet-set |
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|publisher=Mail & Guardian |
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|date=2006-03-24 |
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|accessdate=2008-09-21}}</ref> |
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She has been a staunch supporter of [[Tony Yengeni]], a former ANC Chief Whip in parliament, who was convicted of defrauding parliament in 2004, even accompanying Yengeni to [[Pollsmoor Prison]] when he reported to serve his sentence<ref>{{cite news |
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|first=André |
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|last=Jurgens |
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|coauthors=Ndivhuho Mafela and Philani Nombembe |
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|title=Jailed Yengeni shows no remorse |
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|url=http://www.thetimes.co.za/SpecialReports/Yengeni/Article.aspx?id=298749 |
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|publisher=The Times |
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|date=2006-08-27 |
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|accessdate=2008-09-21}}</ref>. |
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==Deputy President== |
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On 20 September, 2008, the [[African National Congress]] formally asked President [[Thabo Mbeki]] to resign as President of South Africa. Mbete accepted Mbeki's resignation on 21 September. |
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Before 22 September, Mbete was speculated to succeed Mbeki as President, which would have made her the first female head of state in South Africa's history; however, the ANC announced that [[Kgalema Motlanthe]], the Deputy President of the ANC, would assume that position. On 23 September, Mbete was announced by the SABC to be the most likely candidate for Deputy President of South Africa following [[Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka]]'s resignation from the position,<ref>[http://www.sabcnews.com/politics/government/0,2172,177271,00.html ''Mbete to be appointed interim deputy president'']</ref> even though other reports had stated that [[Lindiwe Sisulu]] would assume that position. |
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On 25 September, she was appointed by Motlanthe as Deputy President.<ref>[http://allafrica.com/stories/200809250958.html "South Africa: New President Removes Health Minister"], allAfrica.com, 25 September, 2008.</ref> |
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==References== |
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