Makhenkesi Stofile information

Makhenkesi Stofile
Makhenkesi Stofile
Chancellor of the University of Fort Hare
	In office; 5 May 2016 – 15 August 2016
Preceded by	Thembile Skweyiya
Succeeded by	Dumisa Ntsebeza
South African Ambassador to Germany
	In office; 1 June 2011 – December 2015
President	Jacob Zuma
Minister of Sport and Recreation
	In office; 29 April 2004 – 31 October 2010
President	Thabo Mbeki; Kgalema Motlanthe; Jacob Zuma
Deputy	Gert Oosthuizen
Preceded by	Ngconde Balfour
Succeeded by	Fikile Mbalula
2nd Premier of the Eastern Cape
	In office; 4 February 1997 – 26 April 2004
Preceded by	Raymond Mhlaba
Succeeded by	Nosimo Balindlela
Chief Whip of the Majority Party
	In office; May 1994 – February 1997
Speaker	Frene Ginwala
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	Max Sisulu
Deputy
Party offices; 1994–2006
Provincial Chairperson of the Eastern Cape African National Congress
	In office; 1996 – December 2006
Deputy	Stone Sizani; Enoch Godongwana
Preceded by	Dumisani Mafu
Succeeded by	Stone Sizani
Treasurer of the African National Congress
	In office; December 1994 – December 1997
President	Nelson Mandela
Preceded by	Thomas Nkobi
Succeeded by	Mendi Msimang
Personal details
Born	Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile; 27 December 1944; Adelaide, Cape Province; Union of South Africa
Died	15 August 2016 (aged 71); Alice, Eastern Cape
Political party	African National Congress
Spouse	Nambitha Siwisa
Alma mater	University of Fort Hare; Princeton University
Nicknames	Stof; Bra Stof; Mfundisi;

Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile (27 December 1944 – 15 August 2016) was a South African politician and anti-apartheid activist who served as the second Premier of the Eastern Cape from 1997 to 2004. After that, he was Minister of Sport and Recreation from 2004 to 2010. He was also a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC).

Born in the Eastern Cape, Stofile was an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa and spent much of the apartheid era as a theologian at the University of Fort Hare. At the same time, he had joined the ANC underground in 1970, and in 1983 he became involved in the United Democratic Front, both as regional secretary in the Border Region and as a member of the national executive. In 1987, he was convicted of a political offence and imprisoned in the Ciskei for three years. Himself an accomplished rugby player, Stofile was also an active figure in non-racial sports administration in the Eastern Cape, and he co-founded the South African Council on Sport in 1989.

After the end of apartheid in 1994, Stofile joined the National Assembly as the ANC's inaugural Majority Chief Whip. He held that position until February 1997, when he returned to his home province to replace Raymond Mhlaba as Premier of the Eastern Cape. He was also the national Treasurer of the ANC from 1994 to 1997 and its Provincial Chairperson in the Eastern Cape from 1996 to 2006.

Stofile returned to the national government after the April 2004 general election, appointed as Minister of Sport and Recreation in the second cabinet of President Thabo Mbeki. During his tenure in the ministry, South Africa hosted the 2010 FIFA World Cup. After President Jacob Zuma sacked Stofile from the cabinet in October 2010, he served as South African Ambassador to Germany between 2011 and 2015, when he retired.

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