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Encyclopedia > Baleka Mbete

Baleka Mbete (born September 24, 1949) is a South African politician and the current Speaker of the South African National Assembly. is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ...


She received a teacher's certificate from Lovedale Teachers' College and taught in Durban. Map of South Africa showing Durbans location. ...


After going into exile Mbete taught in Mbabane, and went on to work for the African National Congress in several other African cities including Dar es Salaam, Nairobi, Gaborone, Harare, and Lusaka. Location of Mbabane in Swaziland Mbabane, with an estimated population of 70,000 (2003), is the capital of Swaziland. ... For political parties with similar names in other countries, see Northern Rhodesian African National Congress and Zambian African National Congress. ... Dar es Salaam (دار السلام), formerly Mzizima, is the largest city (pop. ... Nairobi (pronounced ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. ... Satellite image of Gaborone Location of Gaborone in Botswana Gaborone (pron. ... Map of Zimbabwe showing the location of Harare. ... Lusaka is the capital and largest city of Zambia. ...


She led the Medu Art Ensemble, was the secretary-general of ANC Women's League from 1991 to 1993, and the Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa from 1996 to 2004. Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ... The National Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of South Africa, located in Cape Town, Western Cape Province. ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


Mbete was a member of the Presidential Panel on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the ANC National Executive Committee, and the Pan-African Parliament. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was a court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. ... The Pan-African Parliament is the legislative body of the African Union; at present it exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers. ...


In April 1997, she was found to have received an improperly issued driver's license but not charged with any wrongdoing. This after investigators uncover widespread corruption in Mpumalanga regional driving license testing centers, where licenses are being issued in exchange for bribes[1].


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Instead, Mbete’s counsel, Ismail Jamie, had used other legal grounds to justify her decision to recognise the defections of five DA members — and thus the loss of their seats to the DA — and to refuse the DA’s request to fill the seats with its nominated members.
Mbete’s original argument in refusing the DA’s request was that the defections were valid as they constituted 10% of the 50 MPs the DA had at the start of the 15-day floor-crossing window period.
Contrary to Mbete’s original argument that the threshold was pegged at the opening of the window period, Jamie said “the threshold requirement is not determined afresh upon each defection but was determined on the basis of the final number of members who departed from the nominating party during the window period as a whole”.
Mbete denies 'imminent arrests' (508 words)
Cape Town - National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete on Friday denied ever having said 23 MPs implicated in parliament's travel voucher scam were to be arrested by the Scorpions, South Africa's elite crime-busting unit.
Responding to Gibson's speech, Mbete said his claim she had told the chief whip's forum the Scorpions were ready to arrest members was not true.
Mbete said it was unfortunate Gibson had used his farewell speech as an opportunity to "raise a whole range of controversial rumours (and) supposed facts; you are even misquoting me in the process".
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