Thabang Makwetla
| Thabang Makwetla | |
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| Deputy Minister of Justice and Correctional Services for Correctional Services | |
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Assumed office 25 May 2014 |
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| Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans | |
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In office 11 May 2009 – 25 May 2014 |
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| Succeeded by | Kebby Maphatsoe |
| Premier of Mpumalanga | |
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In office 21 April 2004 – 10 May 2009 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 May 1957 |
| Nationality | South Africa |
| Political party | African National Congress |
Thabang Samson Phathakge Makwetla (born 18 May 1957) is the current Deputy Minister of Justice and Correctional Services in South Africa with special responsibility for Correctional Services, former Deputy Minister of Defence and Military Veterans and former Premier of Mpumalanga. He is a member of the African National Congress (ANC). Inside of the ANC, he is a supporter of former South African President Thabo Mbeki. As a consequence of this support and Jacob Zuma's election as ANC President at the 2007 party conference, Makwetla will lose his position of regional chairperson of Mpumalanga.
Makwetla joined the South African Students Movement in 1974 and went into exile in 1976, joining the ANC's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe in the same year. While in exile, he lived in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho and Zambia. Besides receiving an education abroad, Makwetla served the South African Communist Party in the Botswana region from 1986 to 1988.
Makwetla graduated from Mmabathoana High School in Lesotho in 1977 and later from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia.
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