Deputy President Baleka Mbete of South Africa
Mbete was a member of the Presidential Panel on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the ANC National Executive Committee, and the Pan-African Parliament.
Mbete is a shareholder in Dyambu Holdings which is involved in building the massive Gautrain public transport project in the province Gauteng.
In April 1997, Mbete was found to have received an improperly issued driver's license but not charged with any wrongdoing.
Mbete said that she had been "too busy" to stand in queues.
Mbete was one of more than 200 South African parliamentarians found to have misused subsidised travel privileges in the Travelgate scandal.
Mbete accepted Mbeki's resignation on 21 September.
Before 22 September, Mbete was speculated to succeed Mbeki as President, which would have made her the first female head of state in South Africa's history; however, the ANC announced that Kgalema Motlanthe, the Deputy President of the ANC, would assume that position.
On 23 September, Mbete was announced by the SABC to be the most likely candidate for Deputy President of South Africa following Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka's resignation from the position, even though other reports had stated that Lindiwe Sisulu would assume that position.
Use a condom with each partner, and every time you have sex, Deputy President Baleka Mbete said on Monday.
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ANC chairperson Baleka Mbete says disgruntled party members who plan to start their own movement are wasting their energy.
Pretoria - Deputy President Baleka Mbete met her Swedish counterpart Deputy Prime Minister Maud Olofsson, Monday morning, to build support for investment in the African Agenda.
Speaking at the launch of Access to Justice and Promotion of Constitutional Rights Programme in Orange Farm in the Vaal on Wednesday, Ms Mbete said many people in the country were poor, uneducated and living in rural areas were vulnerable to gross violations of their rights on a daily basis.
Durban - Deputy President Baleka Mbete has called on HIV positive mothers to do more to protect their children from being infected with the virus.
Speaking to thousands of people at the national World AIDS Day event in Durban on Monday, Ms Mbete said HIV positive mothers must enrol into government's Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission Programme to ensure they get the necessary access to anti-retroviral (ARV) therapy.
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Mbete said this at the formal opening of the special Africa-Indian Ocean Regional Air Navigation International Conference in Durban, capital of Kwazulu-Natal.
Jan 12 (Xinhua) -- South African Deputy President Baleka Mbete is to hold bilateral political, trade and economic discussions with Deputy Prime Minister of Sweden Maud Olofsson the South African foreign affairs department said on Monday.
Mbete Deputy President Grade: Too early to tell, but questions abound Since being elected deputy president in September Baleka Mbete has chaired meetings of the Anti-Poverty Strategy Framework as well as on HIV/Aids and on the energy efficiency campaign.
Zuma will also address a pre-launch gala dinner on Friday while Deputy President Baleka Mbete is scheduled to address young professionals on Thursday evening.
Deputy President Baleka Mbete has emerged as a key role player in the removal of prisons director general Vernie Petersen from his.
Originally trained as a teacher, Speaker Mbete has a long career as activist and politician.
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Mbete took over as speaker from Frene Ginwala, dropped by former president Thabo Mbeki after the April 2004 elections.
Backroom advisers say Mbete was determined not to repeat the tactical errors which made Parliament a cul-de-sac, rather than a stepping stone, for Ginwala.
When Mbete took over as speaker, and a new secretary, Zingile Dingani, was appointed Parliament's administrative head, the appetite for tough action quickly waned.
It was a hugely embarrassing debacle and Mbete took part in the resulting decision to replace law firm Hofmeyrs with Edward Nathan Sonnenberg in an apparent effort to make the move stick.
Mbete knows exactly where the lines between her party and institutional roles are drawn and is very good at dancing between them.
Mbete knows exactly where the lines between her party and institutional roles are drawn and is very good at dancing between them" I don't agree with this statement.
Baleka Mbete knows exactly where the lines between her party and institutional roles are drawn.
Mbete has been tipped as the likely candidate, given that ANC deputy president Kgalema Motlanthe does not have the support of Zuma hardliners.
Zuma, however, is said not to want to become president in this way, so Mbete is likely to be elected, given that the ANC has a huge majority in parliament.
Apart from being the Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Baleka Mbete is the President, Inter-Parliamentary Union (since April 2008); National Chairperson, ANC (since December 2007); Member, National Executive Council, ANC (since December 2007); Member, National Executive Committee (since 1997); Member, National Working Committee (since 1998) and she is the Chairperson of the African National Congress Parliamentary caucus (since 1995.
Mbete has three sons and two daughters.
Nokwes heart quietly filled with joy last week when Mbete was sworn in as the countrys deputy president.
Mbete was hailed as a role model and a beacon of hope for the sprawling township, just over 20km from Durban.
Mbete was 21 when her family moved into the nondescript, four-room home in Mnyayiza Road, KwaMashu E Section, in 1970.
communities, business and broader civil society to save electricity.
opposition calls for her to resign.
Deputy President Baleka Mbete has launched an initiative aimed at giving rural communities access to legal services and educating them about their constitutional rights.
Use a condom with each partner, and every round, Deputy President Baleka Mbete has said at the World Aids Day commemoration at Durban's Sahara Stadium.
Deputy President Baleka Mbete has promised tough action against government officials involved in corruption.
ANC national chair Baleka Mbete says disgruntled party members who plan to start their own movement are wasting their energy, the SABC reports.
Former speaker of parliament Baleka Mbete has been sworn in as Deputy President at the Union Buildings.
South African Vice President, Baleka Mbete has told African Ministers of Aviation and Transportation to embrace Regional co-operation in critical areas of training, search and rescue and Air Navigation to ensure greater cost effectiveness.
Baleka Mbete was speaking at the South African Business Coalition on HIV/Aids on Wednesday.
Mbete said that having sex under the influence of alcohol increased the risk of infection, the SAPA news agency reported.
Mbete said the government planned to halve new HIV and tuberculosis (TB) infections within three years.
increased the risk of infection, the SAPA news agency reported.
tuberculosis (TB) infections within three years.
Mbete said the National Assembly of South Africa would intensify and deepen communication and cooperation between the two nations and the two legislatures, in particular communication and cooperation between the young people of the two countries.
Mbete is visiting China from Sept.
president Baleka Mbete said on Monday.
practical initiatives and be harmonised.