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Mathole Motshekga was born on 2 April, 1949 in Modjadjiskloof, Transvaal, Union of South Africa, is a South African politician and lawyer. Discover Mathole Motshekga's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Born 2 April, 1949
Birthday 2 April
Birthplace Modjadjiskloof, Transvaal, Union of South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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1949

Mathole Serofo Motshekga (born 2 April 1949) is a South African lawyer and politician who was elected to his third consecutive term as a Member of Parliament in the 2019 general election.

He formerly represented his political party, the African National Congress (ANC), as the second Premier of Gauteng.

Born in what is now Limpopo province, Motshekga was an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa during apartheid and also taught law at the University of South Africa.

Motshekga was born on 2 April 1949 in Modjadjiskloof in what later became South Africa's Limpopo province.

His father was a ranger on a white-owned farm, and he had younger siblings.

1969

He matriculated in 1969 and after graduation worked as a clerk at the University of the North.

1975

Motshekga studied law at university, earning a BJuris from the University of South Africa (Unisa) in 1975, and in 1976 he moved to Pretoria to complete his articles for qualification as an attorney.

1978

He received an LLB from Unisa in 1978 and enrolled to complete a Doctor of Law at the same university.

1979

In 1979, he received a scholarship to conduct his doctoral research in Germany, where he conducted solidarity work for the African National Congress (ANC), attempting to mobilise international support for the anti-apartheid cause.

He did similar work while visiting the United States the following year.

1980

He also maintained his contacts inside the ANC, which in the 1980s was based in Lusaka, Zambia.

1984

Upon his return to South Africa, Motshekga was appointed a senior lecturer at Unisa, where he worked from 1984 to 1994.

In 1984, he was admitted as an Advocate of the Supreme Court of South Africa.

He ultimately obtained both his Doctorate of Law, from Unisa, and an LLM from Harvard Law School.

1990

When the ANC was unbanned by the apartheid government in 1990, Motshekga was appointed to the interim leadership corps of the ANC in the PWV region around Pretoria, then headed by Tokyo Sexwale.

1994

At the time of South Africa's first post-apartheid election in 1994, Motshekga was Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the ANC branch in the country's new Gauteng province.

1997

In September 1997, he was elected Provincial Chairperson of the ANC in Gauteng; he succeeded Tokyo Sexwale as Premier in January 1998.

He held that position until September 1997, when ANC Provincial Chairperson Tokyo Sexwale resigned and Motshekga was elected to succeed him.

His election followed a heated succession battle with multiple rounds of voting: Motshekga defeated Amos Masondo and then, in the final round of voting, beat Frank Chikane with 343 votes to Chikane's 179.

1998

Motshekga likewise succeeded Sexwale as Premier of Gauteng in January 1998 when Sexwale vacated that post.

During his tenure, he was subject to an internal investigation by the ANC.

1999

However, after the 1999 general election, newly elected President Thabo Mbeki asked Motshekga to resign as Premier.

President Thabo Mbeki asked him to resign as Premier in April 1999, shortly after Mbeki took office in a general election.

2000

Motshekga's ousting from the government office led to division inside the provincial ANC, and the Motshekga-led ANC Provincial Executive Committee was disbanded by the national party leadership in 2000, prematurely ending Motshekga's term as ANC Provincial Chairperson.

In subsequent years, Motshekga expanded his business interests.

2006

As of 2006, he was a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.

At one time he represented the ANC on the Judicial Service Commission.

2007

He was also elected to the National Executive Committee of the ANC in 2007 and 2017.

At the ANC's 52nd National Conference in December 2007, Motshekga was elected to a five-year term on the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC), the party's top executive organ; by number of votes received, he ranked 53rd of the 80 candidates elected.

2008

The NEC said this situation was incongruent with a party resolution adopted in 2008 which required the Chief Whip to sit on the NEC.

2009

In subsequent years Motshekga served as a Member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature and was Chief Whip of the Majority Party in the National Assembly from 2009 until 2013, when he was demoted to an ordinary seat in Parliament.

In the 2009 general election, Motshekga was elected as a Member of the National Assembly (NA), the lower house of the South African Parliament; at the same time, he was appointed Chief Whip of the ANC, the majority party, in the NA.

2012

However, Motshekga was removed as Chief Whip before the end of his term because, at the ANC's next national conference in December 2012, he narrowly failed to gain re-election to the ANC NEC.

2013

He served in that position until June 2013, becoming the party's longest-serving Chief Whip.

The ANC therefore removed Motshekga as Chief Whip on 20 June 2013, replacing him with Stone Sizani.

At a later date, after his removal as Chief Whip, Motshekga was in any case co-opted onto the ANC NEC.

2014

Simultaneously, Motshekga remained an ordinary Member of Parliament, and he was re-elected to his seat in 2014 and 2019.

In addition, in 2014 he was appointed to represent the ANC as An Na delegate to the Judicial Service Commission.

He served on a number of parliamentary committees, including as Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Justice and Correctional Services (from June 2014 to August 2018) and Chairperson of the Joint Standing Committee on the Financial Management of Parliament (from August 2018 to May 2019).

2017

At the party's 54th National Conference in December 2017, he was democratically elected to another five-year term on the body, although he was not nominated to stand for re-election at the 55th National Conference in December 2022.