Mduduzi Manana MP |
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Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training | |
Assumed office 2012 |
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Minister | Blade Nzimande |
Personal details | |
Born |
Ermelo, Mpumalanga |
12 February 1984
Political party | African National Congress |
Alma mater | University of Natal (B. Arts) |
Mduduzi Manana is the South African Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training and member of parliament since 2009.
He earned a BA degree in Political Science and Sociology from University of Natal and was elected to the Regional Executive Committee (REC) of the ANCYL in the Gert Sibande Region in 2006. In 2009, he served in the International Relations & Cooperation and Public Works Portfolio Committees and was later appointed a Whip of the Portfolio Committees on Transport and Public Service and Administration and Governance and Monitoring Cluster in 2011.
On the 5th August 2017, Mduduzi Manana was involved in an altercation in which he assaulted 2 women for allegedly calling him "gay". This happened at a night club in Johannesburg in the early hours of the morning. He later confessed when he was being confronted by the brother of one of the victims. South African Police Minister Fikile Mbalula said a case was opened against him at Douglasdale Police station and Mduduzi would be arrested as soon as they had gathered enough evidence. He also highlighted that he would not be given special treatment because he was a member of parliament.