David Mabuza (born 25 August 1960) is a South African politician who served as deputy president of South Africa from February 2018 to February 2023. He was the deputy president of the African National Congress (ANC) from December 2017 to December 2022 and was previously the premier of Mpumalanga from 2009 to 2018, throughout the presidency of his former political ally Jacob Zuma. Mabuza served as a Member of Parliament from 2018 until his resignation in 2023.
A native of rural Mpumalanga and a teacher by training, Mabuza's initial engagement in politics was through the Black Consciousness movement, while he was a student, and then through teachers' unions; he was chairperson of the South African Democratic Teachers Union, an affiliate of the influential Congress of South African Trade Unions, from 1988 to 1991. After the end of apartheid in 1994, he joined the Mpumalanga provincial legislature as an ANC representative and took up a series of ministerial posts in the Mpumalanga Executive Council. He was elected to the ANC National Executive Committee for the first time in 2007 and was ANC provincial chairperson in Mpumalanga from 2008 to 2017, throughout his premiership.
Mabuza's politics have been described as populist. Through a rigorous recruitment drive, he increased the size and influence of the Mpumalanga branch of the ANC and, with Ace Magashule and Supra Mahumapelo, was part of the so-called Premier League that helped engineer the outcome of the ANC's 54th National Conference. At the conference, held in December 2017, Mabuza was elected Deputy President of the ANC, serving under Cyril Ramaphosa. When Ramaphosa ascended to the national presidency after Zuma's resignation in February 2018, he appointed Mabuza to succeed him as national Deputy President.
DavidMabuza (born 25 August 1960) is a South African politician who served as deputy president of South Africa from February 2018 to February 2023. He...
presidential candidate Cyril Ramaphosa, and reportedly partnered with DavidMabuza in negotiating access to that slate. Some commentators have said that...
president of the African National Congress and the Premier of Mpumalanga, DavidMabuza, as the country's Deputy President. On 8 May 2019, the African National...
Mabuza is a Nguni surname popular in South Africa, Mozambique and Eswatini. Notable people with the surname include: DavidMabuza (born 1960), South African...
and the author of Al Capones of Mpumalanga. Dube deputised for DavidMabuza while Mabuza served as provincial chairperson of the African National Congress...
this period, Chiwayo was a key rival and critic of Mpumalanga Premier DavidMabuza. Chiwayo left the mayoral office after the May 2011 local elections and...
have been made repeatedly that Bobby Motaung and DavidMabuza organised the murder of Mohlala. DavidMabuza was Premier of the Mpumalanga Province at the...
he announced a major Cabinet reshuffle, including the appointment of DavidMabuza as deputy president. The president announced a cabinet reshuffle on 22...
instead to run for the position of Deputy President. She was defeated by DavidMabuza. When President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his reshuffled cabinet, Sisulu...
November 2022. "Mabuza re-elected Mpuma ANC leader". News24. 7 April 2012. Retrieved 30 November 2022. "Re-elected ANC Mpumalanga chair Mabuza will not purge...
happened". News24. Retrieved 2 August 2021. "THE SHUFFLE: Outgoing Deputy President DavidMabuza the latest ANC member to resign from Parliament". March 2023....
29th of October 2022 and was attended by Cyril Ramaphosa, Jacob Zuma, DavidMabuza, Mswati III, Patrice Motsepe, Thabo Mbeki and many politicians, actors...
National Assembly: John Steenhuisen (DA) Leader of Government Business: DavidMabuza (ANC) Government Chief Whip (of the National Assembly): Pemmy Majodina...
after his election in the 2009 general election, new Mpumalanga Premier DavidMabuza announced his new Executive Council, including the restructuring of the...
briefly served as the acting spokesperson for the Mpumalanga Premier DavidMabuza. He is a former Deputy President of the African National Congress Youth...
The Business Day reported that Mkhize's candidacy might be endorsed by DavidMabuza, an influential ANC powerbroker in Mpumalanga who was pushing for a "unity...
recession in 2019. In December 2019, President Ramaphosa, deputy president DavidMabuza and Ministers Gwede Mantashe and Pravin Gordhan met with Eskom's board...
attended by South African leading clergy and South Africa's Vice President DavidMabuza. Claims were made in The Citizen in February 2019 that Bushiri was born...
sitting on 21 May 2014. In the same sitting, the legislature re-elected DavidMabuza as Premier of Mpumalanga; he became the first person to be elected to...
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Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs and Finance under premier DavidMabuza. Biography portal South Africa portal Politics portal African Commission...
to 2014 she served in the Mpumalanga Executive Council under Premier DavidMabuza. In the 1990s, Mahlangu was a local leader of the African National Congress...
Congress, beating his rival, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, by a narrow margin. DavidMabuza was elected as Deputy President of the ANC, succeeding Ramaphosa. On...
the original on 27 December 2021. Retrieved 27 December 2021. Ottaway, David (3 February 1990). "S. Africa Lifts Ban on ANC, Other Groups". The Washington...
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