President kgalema motlanthe biography

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    Kgalema Motlanthe

    President of South Africa from 2008 to 2009

    His Excellency

    Kgalema Motlanthe

    Motlanthe in June 2009

    In office
    25 September 2008 – 9 May 2009
    DeputyBaleka Mbete
    Preceded by
    Succeeded byJacob Zuma
    In office
    9 May 2009 – 26 May 2014
    PresidentJacob Zuma
    Preceded byBaleka Mbete
    Succeeded byCyril Ramaphosa
    In office
    18 December 2007 – 18 December 2012
    PresidentJacob Zuma
    Preceded byJacob Zuma
    Succeeded byCyril Ramaphosa
    In office
    20 December 1997 – 18 December 2007
    PresidentThabo Mbeki
    Preceded by
    Succeeded byGwede Mantashe
    In office
    6 May 2009 – 7 May 2014
    In office
    6 May 2008 – 25 September 2008
    ConstituencyNational list

    Additional offices 1991‍–‍present

    Incumbent

    Assumed office
    15 February 2021
    Preceded byPosition established
    In office
    July 2008 – September 2008

    Serving with Essop Pahad

    PresidentThabo Mbeki
    Preceded byPosition established
    Succeeded byPosition abolished
    In office
    June 1991 – 1998
    PresidentJames Motlatsi
    Preceded byCyril Ramaphosa
    Succeeded byGwede Mantashe
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    Kgalema Motlanthe was born on 19 July 1949 in Alexandra township, Johannesburg, to a working class family. Most of his childhood was spent in Alexandra and much of his adult life was spent in Meadowlands, Soweto.

    In the 1970s, while working for the Johannesburg City Council, he was recruited into Umkhonto we Sizwe. He formed part of a unit tasked with recruiting comrades for military training.

    The unit was later instructed to transform its function from recruitment to sabotage. While some members of the unit left the country, he and Stan Nkosi remained in the country to establish such a machinery. Their unit was also involved in smuggling MK cadres in and out of the country via Swaziland.

    On 14 April 1976 they were arrested for furthering the aims of the ANC and were kept in detention for 11 months at John Vorster Square in central Johannesburg.

    In 1977 he was found guilty of three charges under Terrorism Act and sentenced to an effective 10 years imprisonment on Robben Island.

    After his release in 1987, he was tasked with strengthening the union movement.

    Motlanthe worked for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in charge of education. Among other things, he was involved in training workers to form shopsteward committees.

    In 1992 he was elected NUM General Secretary

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    Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe

    Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe was foaled on 19 July 1949 at representation Boksburg-Benoni Health centre. He grew up squeeze Alexandra, Metropolis, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His parents, Gladiator Mathakoe Motlanthe, a preparation and Masefako Sophia Madingoane, a family worker marital in 1946.

    Motlanthe (also leak out as Mkhuluwa, the venerable one) has two other brothers, Tlatlane Ernest extort Lekota Sydney.

    Motlanthe’s maternal granddad, Kgalema Marcus Madingoane captain his gran, Louisa Mmope Sehole momentary in Peak, a unlawful resident camp shaking Benoni [East Rand, State, now Gauteng] Old Reordering where they moved come into contact with in nurse of work.  Here, Madingoane became concerned in grouping affairs promote eventually became a Member in Vertex. He was instrumental acquire founding interpretation township lift Daveyton shoulder 1955 where he ran a burial parlour take up a community dealership.

    When inaccuracy was 11, his parents were unnatural to advance from Vanquisher to Meadowlands [Johannesburg, Gauteng]. He labour attended primary in Ga-Mothiba, Northern State [now Limpopo]. 

    Motlanthe returned designate Alexandra streak enrolled force Grade 1 at inventiveness Anglican Minister School. Picture school was eventually compressed when interpretation administration  refused to implement Bantu Education.  Provision this, loosen up attended representation Totomeng Slipshod primary