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Malusi Gigaba
Knowledge Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba (born 30 August 1971) is a South African politician who represents the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly. He served as a cabinet minister between 2010 and 2018, with stints as Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Public Enterprises, and Minister of Finance. He returned to the National Assembly in the May 2024 general election after a hiatus from frontline politics.
Gigaba joined the government of South Africa in April 2004 as Deputy Minister of Home Affairs under President Thabo Mbeki and was promoted to the cabinet by President Jacob Zuma in October 2010. Thereafter he served as Minister of Public Enterprises from November 2010 to May 2014 and Minister of Home Affairs from May 2014 to March 2017, when Zuma controversially appointed him to replace Pravin Gordhan as Minister of Finance. Zuma's successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa, demoted him back to the home affairs portfolio in February 2018. He resigned from the government and National Assembly in November 2018 under sustained public and political pressure, arising from a finding by the High Court and Public Protector that he had lied under oath in a lawsuit brought by the Oppenheimers' Fireblade Aviation.
In 2022, the Zondo Commission recommended that Gigaba should face criminal investigation for allegedly receiving corrupt payments from the Gupta family during his tenure in the cabinet. His critics associate him closely with the project of state capture allegedly pursued by Zuma and the Guptas in that period, accusing him of using his position as public enterprises minister to interfere with the governance of state-owned enterprises. In the home affairs portfolio, a parliamentary inquiry found that Gigaba had improperly granted South African citizenship to members of the Gupta family in a naturalisation process riddled with fraud and other irregularities.
Born in Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, Gigaba rose to prominence as three-term president of the ANC Youth League from March 1996 to August 2004. He has been a member of the ANC National Executive Committee since December 2002 and served one term on the party's National Working Committee between 2013 and 2017. He also led the ANC's national election campaign in the 2014 general election.
Gigaba was born on 30 August 1971 at Eshowe in Natal Province, now part of KwaZulu-Natal. He grew up in the area, attending primary school in Mandeni. The second of five siblings, he has three sisters and a brother. His family was comfortably middle-class; his father, Jabulani Gigaba, was an Anglican priest, and his mother, Nomthandazo Gigaba, was a nurse. He later said that his upbringing was "both religious and clean". He matriculated in 1988 at Vryheid State High School.
He attended the University of Durban-Westville, completing a bachelor's degree in pedagogics in 1991 and a master of arts in social policy in 1993. His master's research focused on urban affairs and policy and his dissertation, about land invasions in Cato Manor, was adapted for publication in Development Southern Africa in 1996. At the university he was a founding member of the Education Students Society and a member of the Geography Students Society.
He was also active in student anti-apartheid politics. He became politically active as a teenager in 1985 and participated in the Congress of South African Students, South African Youth Congress, and Young Christian Students. As a university student, he joined the African National Congress (ANC), ANC Youth League, and South African Communist Party (SACP) when they were unbanned in 1990 during the negotiations to end apartheid. In 1993 he was chairperson of his university's branch of the ANC-aligned South African Student Congress.
Gigaba rose to political prominence in the leadership of the ANC Youth League's Southern Natal branch, serving a stint as its chairperson and becoming its provincial secretary in 1994, the year of South Africa's first democratic elections; in that capacity he was an ex officio member of the mainstream ANC's Provincial Executive Committee, then chaired by Jacob Zuma.
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Malusi Gigaba
Knowledge Malusi Nkanyezi Gigaba (born 30 August 1971) is a South African politician who represents the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly. He served as a cabinet minister between 2010 and 2018, with stints as Minister of Home Affairs, Minister of Public Enterprises, and Minister of Finance. He returned to the National Assembly in the May 2024 general election after a hiatus from frontline politics.
Gigaba joined the government of South Africa in April 2004 as Deputy Minister of Home Affairs under President Thabo Mbeki and was promoted to the cabinet by President Jacob Zuma in October 2010. Thereafter he served as Minister of Public Enterprises from November 2010 to May 2014 and Minister of Home Affairs from May 2014 to March 2017, when Zuma controversially appointed him to replace Pravin Gordhan as Minister of Finance. Zuma's successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa, demoted him back to the home affairs portfolio in February 2018. He resigned from the government and National Assembly in November 2018 under sustained public and political pressure, arising from a finding by the High Court and Public Protector that he had lied under oath in a lawsuit brought by the Oppenheimers' Fireblade Aviation.
In 2022, the Zondo Commission recommended that Gigaba should face criminal investigation for allegedly receiving corrupt payments from the Gupta family during his tenure in the cabinet. His critics associate him closely with the project of state capture allegedly pursued by Zuma and the Guptas in that period, accusing him of using his position as public enterprises minister to interfere with the governance of state-owned enterprises. In the home affairs portfolio, a parliamentary inquiry found that Gigaba had improperly granted South African citizenship to members of the Gupta family in a naturalisation process riddled with fraud and other irregularities.
Born in Eshowe, KwaZulu-Natal, Gigaba rose to prominence as three-term president of the ANC Youth League from March 1996 to August 2004. He has been a member of the ANC National Executive Committee since December 2002 and served one term on the party's National Working Committee between 2013 and 2017. He also led the ANC's national election campaign in the 2014 general election.
Gigaba was born on 30 August 1971 at Eshowe in Natal Province, now part of KwaZulu-Natal. He grew up in the area, attending primary school in Mandeni. The second of five siblings, he has three sisters and a brother. His family was comfortably middle-class; his father, Jabulani Gigaba, was an Anglican priest, and his mother, Nomthandazo Gigaba, was a nurse. He later said that his upbringing was "both religious and clean". He matriculated in 1988 at Vryheid State High School.
He attended the University of Durban-Westville, completing a bachelor's degree in pedagogics in 1991 and a master of arts in social policy in 1993. His master's research focused on urban affairs and policy and his dissertation, about land invasions in Cato Manor, was adapted for publication in Development Southern Africa in 1996. At the university he was a founding member of the Education Students Society and a member of the Geography Students Society.
He was also active in student anti-apartheid politics. He became politically active as a teenager in 1985 and participated in the Congress of South African Students, South African Youth Congress, and Young Christian Students. As a university student, he joined the African National Congress (ANC), ANC Youth League, and South African Communist Party (SACP) when they were unbanned in 1990 during the negotiations to end apartheid. In 1993 he was chairperson of his university's branch of the ANC-aligned South African Student Congress.
Gigaba rose to political prominence in the leadership of the ANC Youth League's Southern Natal branch, serving a stint as its chairperson and becoming its provincial secretary in 1994, the year of South Africa's first democratic elections; in that capacity he was an ex officio member of the mainstream ANC's Provincial Executive Committee, then chaired by Jacob Zuma.
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