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Steve Tshwete (Steve Vukhile Tshwete) was born on 12 November, 1938 in Springs, Transvaal Province, is an An african national congress politician. Discover Steve Tshwete'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 63 years old?

Popular As Steve Vukhile Tshwete
Occupation N/A
Age 63 years old
Zodiac Sign Scorpio
Born 12 November, 1938
Birthday 12 November
Birthplace Springs, Transvaal Province
Date of death 26 April, 2002
Died Place Pretoria, Gauteng
Nationality South Africa

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Children Lindela, Mayihlome, Yonda and Mandlakazi

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1938

Steve Vukhile Tshwete (12 November 1938 – 26 April 2002) was a South African politician and activist with the African National Congress.

Tshwete was born in Springs, East Rand, on 12 November 1938 to Xhosa parents.

He was the eldest of four siblings.

While still a baby his parents moved to Peelton (Nkonkqweni), a black township near King William’s Town, Eastern Cape.

He was taught to read by his mother before starting primary school.

His political interests were awakened reading the Xhosa newspaper Imvo Zabantsundu in his youth.

He attended Forbes Grant Secondary School in King William's Town and was introduced to the ANC through its publications given out by the principal, Mr. H. Mjamba, and at Welsh High in East London he joined the ANC's African Students' Association.

When he left school he continued his work with the ANC.

1963

As a member of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) Border regional command, he was arrested in June 1963 and sentenced in February 1964 to fifteen years in jail for belonging to a banned organization.

He spent his prison time on Robben Island and completed a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in English and Philosophy from University of South Africa (UNISA).

On Robben Island, with his interest in rugby, he organised the prisoners into rugby teams and created a league.

1964

Involved in Umkhonto we Sizwe, Tshwete was imprisoned by the apartheid authorities on Robben Island from February 1964 to 1978.

Tshwete resumed activities with the ANC and become a regional coordinator for the new United Democratic Front.

He later lived in exile in Zambia with the ANC.

1978

He was released in March 1978 and returned to his homeland and became a teacher.

1983

By 1983, he became politically active again and joined the United Democratic Front (UDF) becoming the president of the Eastern Cape region.

He was arrested that year by the Ciskein police and held for four months and then constantly harassed until he left South Africa for the ANC in exile.

1985

He was first in Maseru, Lesotho, and by 1985 he was in Lusaka, Zambia, resuming his military training with MK.

1987

He became a political commissar in MK in August 1987 and authorized the ANC military units in South Africa to attack white civilians by means of a bombing campaign of restaurants and nightclubs in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Durban.

During the 1987, Tshwete was involved in the talks, in Dakar, Senegal and Paris, France when white businessmen, Afrikaner intellectuals and leading South African opposition members met the ANC for discussions.

1988

The ANC National Executive Committee distanced themselves from the attacks in August 1988 after the attacks had been condemned by anti-apartheid leaders and church groups usually sympathetic to the ANC cause.

Tshwete was transferred from his position as a political commissar in MK and he obtained an appointment in the National Executive.

1990

He returned to South Africa after the ANC was unbanned in 1990 as a member of their National Executive and negotiating team.

1991

Having united South Africa's cricket bodies he travelled with Ali Bacher to London in May 1991 and successfully applied for South Africa's admission to the International Cricket Council.

1994

After the first free elections in South Africa in 1994, he became the new government's first Sports Minister and later was Minister of Safety and Security.

After the ANC won the first free election in 1994, Nelson Mandela appointed him as his Minister of Sports, a position he held from 1994 until 1999.

He was tasked with overseeing South Africa's re-entry into international sport, establish development programs for underprivileged blacks sportsmen and women in all sports including rugby and cricket, and de-racializing the national sport teams.

As the head of the ANC's Sports Desk he had the task of uniting sports that had been riven by apartheid.

He had the knack of "bringing sworn enemies to the negotiating table and sending them away as allies ... he went from one sporting code to the next and fixed the potholes on their roads to unity".

1996

He started the first Governor's Cup Yacht Race from Cape Town to Saint Helena in 1996.

1999

On the retirement of Nelson Mandela, he served in Thabo Mbeki's first government as the Minister of Safety and Security from 1999 until his death in April 2002.

He was tasked with restoring the morale of an undermanned, underpaid police force beset with a political history of maintaining apartheid, riddled with corruption and a huge escalation of violent crime in the country.

2001

On 24 April 2001, Tshwete, in his capacity of Minister of Safety and Security, announced, on national television, an investigation into an alleged plot to oust the country's president, Thabo Mbeki, by three high-ranking members of the ANC.

They were identified as Cyril Ramaphosa, Tokyo Sexwale and Mathews Phosa.

The opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, described the investigation as an abuse of government powers and a method to neutralize opponents as Mbeki sought a second term as president.

The three men were cleared in December 2001 when Tshwete announced the results of the investigation and apologised to the men and their families.

Steve Tshwete Local Municipality in Mpumalanga Province is named after him.

2002

It is said he had developed back pain back in March 2002 and was confined to a wheelchair.

He was admitted to Voortrekkerhoogte's 1 Military Hospital in Pretoria with pneumonia and liver failure which occurred after an operation for a spinal problem.

2004

Order of Luthuli in silver (2004)