Mosebenzi Zwane

Mosebenzi Joseph Zwane (* in Vrede , Orange Free State ) is a South African politician for the African National Congress (ANC), who was Minister for Mineral Resources from 2015 to 2018.

Life

Zwane began his political career in the early 1980s in the Youth League of the ANC ( African National Congress Youth League ) in Thembelihle and appeared there also the ANC as a member of. At the same time he was a member of the executive committee of the ANC in Frankfort and first secretary of the ANC to Thabo Mofutsanyana in the early 1990s . He completed a teaching degree at the South African Teachers College in Pretoria and then worked as a teacher . He also studied commercial management at the University of South Africa (UNISA), which he completed with a Bachelor of Commerce (B.Comm.), As well as a degree in local development management at the University of Pretoria , which he completed with a certificate. He later became a member of the Executive Committee of Thabo Mofutsanyana, of which he has been chairman since 2006.

On May 21, 2014 was Zwane member of the Provincial Assembly ( provincial legislature ) of the province of Free State and was for a time as a Member of the Executive Council Minister of Agriculture, rural development, tourism and environment in the provincial government of Prime Minister Elias Sekgobelo Magashule . On September 2, 2015, he became a member of the National Assembly , in which he represents the Welkom constituency . During his membership in Parliament, he was briefly a member of both the Committee on Small Business Development and the Committee on Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries between September 17 and 22, 2015.

Zwane took over on September 23, 2015, the second cabinet of President Jacob Zuma to succeed Ngoako Ramatlhodi office as Minister of Mineral Resources (Minister of Mineral Resources) , which allegedly appointed by the Gupta family was encouraged. With the formation of the Ramaphosa I cabinet in February 2018, Zwane lost his ministerial office, which Gwede Mantashe took over.

Web links

• Entry on People's Assembly (English)
• Entry on Who's Who Southern Africa (English; archive version from 2017)