Stanley mathabatha biography

Premier of Limpopo from 2013 to 2024

Chupu Stanley Mathabatha (born 21 January 1957) is a South African politician who was the fourth Premier of Limpopo between July 2013 and June 2024. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), he has been the Deputy Minister of Land Reform and Rural Development since July 2024.

A former member of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the United Democratic Front, Mathabatha was a civil servant in Limpopo Province until 2010. Thereafter he completed a brief stint as a diplomat, serving as South African Ambassador to Ukraine under President Jacob Zuma from 2012 to 2013. He was elected as Premier of Limpopo in July 2013 after the resignation of Cassel Mathale, and he was elected as the Provincial Chairperson of the African National Congress (ANC) in Limpopo in February 2014.

Mathabatha was elected to a third four-year term as ANC Provincial Chairperson in June 2022. He is also a member of the Central Committee of the South African Comm

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Limpopo’s first lady Margaret Mathabatha passes away

The wife of Limpopo Premier, Stanley Mathabatha, has died. Margaret Mathabatha passed away on onsdag på engelska after a short illness. She was the patron of the First Lady Trust since 2013, when her husband assumed the premiership.

Mathabatha was born in Pretoria, Gauteng in 1961. She started school in Vosloorus in 1968 and matriculated at Illinge High School. She obtained a Bachelor of Primary Education degree at the University of Western Cape in 1990. She also obtained her Master’s Degree at Turfloop Graduate School in 2011.

Mathabatha has taught at various schools before she joined the Office of the Premier as a deputy manager in 1999.

She later moved to the Department of Economic Development, Environment and Tourism as a manager of service delivery improvement. She became Limpopo’s first lady in 2013, when she returned with her husband from Ukraine, where Mathabatha was ambassador.

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Chupu Stanley Mathabatha, Mr

Career/Positions/Memberships/Other Activities

He joined politics at a tender age and became a member of the ANC liberation army Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in 1977 at the age of 20 after the Soweto 1976 Uprising and the same year that his revered comrade, Peter Mokaba was detained under the then draconian Terrorism Act.

Mr Mathabatha, a renowned MK cadre in the Motetema area under violent conditions precipitated mainly by the presence of the local police training academy.

In the 80's, Stan Mathabatha rose to become a prominent leader of the then United Democratic Front (UDF) and later He was part of the advanced youth detachment commonly known as the Young Lions of the North, the most revered, admired and feared by all and sundry. After the unbanning of political parties in 1990, Mathabatha became one of the key activists to rebuild the structure of the ANC internally and the Treasurer of the Northern Transvaal Region of the ANC in 1992. He has since s