17th Secretary-General of the African National Congress
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 December 2022
President
Cyril Ramaphosa
Deputy
Maropene Ramokgopa Nomvula Mokonyane
Preceded by
Ace Magashule
8th President of the African National Congress Youth League
In office August 2004 – April 2008
Deputy
Rubben Mohlaloga
Preceded by
Malusi Gigaba
Succeeded by
Julius Malema
Government offices 2009–2023
Minister of Transport
In office 30 May 2019 – 6 March 2023
President
Cyril Ramaphosa
Deputy
Sindisiwe Chikunga
Preceded by
Blade Nzimande
Succeeded by
Sindisiwe Chikunga
Minister of Police
In office 31 March 2017 – 26 February 2018
President
Jacob Zuma
Preceded by
Nathi Nhleko
Succeeded by
Bheki Cele
Minister of Sport and Recreation
In office 1 November 2010 – 31 March 2017
President
Jacob Zuma
Preceded by
Makhenkesi Stofile
Succeeded by
Thulas Nxesi
Deputy Minister of Police
In office May 2009 – October 2010
President
Jacob Zuma
Minister
Nathi Mthethwa
Succeeded by
Maggie Sotyu
Member of the National Assembly
In office 22 May 2019 – 6 March 2023
In office 6 May 2009 – 26 February 2018
Personal details
Born
Fikile April Mbalula
(1971-04-08) 8 April 1971 (age 53) Botshabelo, Orange Free State South Africa
Political party
African National Congress
Spouse
Nozuko Mbalula
Children
3
Nicknames
Mbaks
Vutha
Fikile April Mbalula (born 8 April 1971) is a South African politician who has been the Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC) since December 2022. He was a cabinet minister between 2010 and 2023, most proximately as Minister of Transport from 2019 to 2023.
Mbalula rose to national political prominence as the President of the ANC Youth League between 2004 and 2008. During this period, he became an outspoken supporter of Jacob Zuma, whom he supported at the ANC's 2007 Polokwane conference. At the same conference, he was elected to the ANC National Executive Committee for the first time and became the party's head of elections and organisation, in which capacity he coordinated its campaign in the 2009 general election. He continued to play a central role in the ANC's subsequent election campaigns.
After Mbalula joined the National Assembly in May 2009, he was appointed as Deputy Minister of Police by Zuma, who was newly elected as President of South Africa. He went on to serve in Zuma's cabinet as Minister of Sport and Recreation from 2010 to 2017 and as Minister of Police from 2017 to 2018. He maintained a prominent public profile in both positions, even as his standing in the ANC suffered due to his falling out with Zuma and his unsuccessful bid to be elected as ANC Secretary-General in 2012.
Although he was initially excluded from the cabinet of Zuma's successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa, Mbalula returned as Minister of Transport from May 2019 to March 2023. He left government in order to take up his full-time position as ANC Secretary-General, which he won at the ANC's 55th National Conference in December 2022.
Fikile April Mbalula (born 8 April 1971) is a South African politician who has been the Secretary-General of the African National Congress (ANC) since...
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territory conquered during the war. In February 2024 ANC Secretary-General FikileMbalula attend a "forum on combating Western neocolonialism" hosted by Russia...
chief ended when he was fired from the Hawks by then Minister of Police FikileMbalula following a High Court ruling that Ntlemeza lacked integrity and was...
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana), the Elections Committee (chaired by FikileMbalula), a National Disciplinary Committee of Appeal (chaired by Nomvula Mokonyane)...
the program director of the funeral, Minister of Sport and Recreation FikileMbalula, Premier of KwaZulu-Natal Senzo Mchunu, Minister in the Presidency Jeff...
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cases referred to the Hawks. In mid-August 2019, Transport Minister FikileMbalula launched a war room with a 100 day plan to improve PRASA's railway network...
CODETA met with national Transport Minister FikileMbalula to mediate an end to the conflict after which Mbalula announced that a truce agreement had been...
reshuffle in August 2021. After the previous Minister of Transport, FikileMbalula, was elected as Secretary-General of the African National Congress,...
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He held that office during the tenure of league president FikileMbalula, and he, like Mbalula, was an outspoken supporter of Jacob Zuma. After Zuma was...
Mokaba led the newly unbanned Youth League. In 2005, FikileMbalula became president of the league. Mbalula succeeded the student activist Malusi Gigaba, who...
and she was accused of having a political agenda by cabinet minister FikileMbalula. On 4 July 2014, ANC MPs in the justice portfolio committee objected...
Deputy Secretary-General Nomvula Mokonyane and under Secretary-General FikileMbalula. On 5 February 2023, it was reported that Ramokgopa was one of four...
Police during the apartheid era. In 2009, Deputy Minister of Police FikileMbalula spoke of making the police a paramilitary force by changing the SAPS...
Mchunu as his deputy, incumbent Gwede Mantashe as party chairperson, FikileMbalula as secretary-general, Febe Potgieter as deputy secretary-general, and...
26 February 2023, as one of the last acts as Minister of Transport, FikileMbalula granted Karpowership a Section 79 permit; one of two outstanding permits...
league. His candidacy had the support of outgoing league president FikileMbalula, while outgoing league secretary-general Sihle Zikalala supported the...
International Railway Journal August 2005 page 3 "SA lockdown: Minister FikileMbalula shuts down Gautrain and all commuter services". 25 March 2020. Retrieved...
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Secretary-General, Maropene Ramokgopa, and under Secretary-General FikileMbalula; both Ramokgopa and Mbalula ran on the slate aligned to Ramaphosa and Joemat-Pettersson...
ahead of the ANC's 112th birthday celebrations ANC Secretary General FikileMbalula admitted that ANC MPs lied "in defence of our president [Zuma], we went...
President Cyril Ramaphosa Preceded by Joseph Maswanganyi Succeeded by FikileMbalula Acting Minister of Home Affairs In office 13 November 2018 – 22 November...
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