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Baleka Mbete (born September 24, 1949) is a South African politician and the current Speaker of the South African National Assembly.
She received a teacher's certificate from Lovedale Teachers' College and taught in Durban.
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.
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.
Mbete was a member of the Presidential Panel on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the ANC National Executive Committee, and the Pan-African Parliament.
In April 1997, she was found to have received an improperly issued driver's license but not charged with any wrongdoing. This after investigators uncover widespread corruption in Mpumalanga regional driving license testing centers, where licenses are being issued in exchange for bribes.
In 2007, Mbete suspended DA member Mike Waters after he attempted to ask what was being done about the Manto Tshabalala-Msimang scandal . After heated talks, Mbete stated, "Yesterday I requested the Honourable Waters to withdraw from the Chamber after he had pointedly refused to abide by my ruling that the matter at hand was not open to debate." In 2007, Mbete was nominated for the position of deputy secretary general of the ANC, and then nominated from the floor for the position of party national chairperson to which she was also latter elected, replacing Mosiuoa Lekota.
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References
- "Global Integrity - South Africa Timeline". Global Integrity.
- "DA MP suspended".
| Speakers of the lower house of Parliament of South Africa | ||
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