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The following lists events that happened during 2009 in South Africa.
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The following lists events that happened during 2009 in South Africa.
14 to 28 – The 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup takes place in South Africa and is won by Brazil, with the United States as the runner-up.
Mantombazana 'Manto' Edmie Tshabalala-Msimang was a South African politician. She was Deputy Minister of Justice from 1996 to 1999 and served as Minister of Health from 1999 to 2008 under President Thabo Mbeki. She also served as Minister in the Presidency under President Kgalema Motlanthe from September 2008 to May 2009.
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Mhlanganyelwa Zuma is a South African politician who served as the fourth President of South Africa from the 2009 general election until his resignation on 14 February 2018. Zuma is also referred to by his initials JZ and his clan name Msholozi.
Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe is a South African politician who served as President of South Africa between 25 September 2008 and 9 May 2009, following the resignation of Thabo Mbeki.
Jeffrey Thamsanqa "Jeff" Radebe is a South African politician was appointed as Minister of Energy by Cyril Ramaphosa on 26 February 2018. He served in the government of South Africa as Minister in the Presidency from 2014 to 2018. Previously he was Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development from 2009 to 2014. Radebe is South Africa's longest continuously serving cabinet member, having been part of every national administration since 1994 and under every post-apartheid President.
South Africa since 1994 transitioned from the system of apartheid to one of majority rule. The election of 1994 resulted in a change in government with the African National Congress (ANC) coming to power. The ANC retained power after subsequent elections in 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2014. Children born during this period are known as the born-free generation, and those aged eighteen or older, were able to vote for the first time in 2014.
The 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) was held in Polokwane, Limpopo, South Africa from 16–20 December 2007. It elected Jacob Zuma and his supporters to the party's top leadership and National Executive Committee (NEC), representing a significant defeat for Thabo Mbeki, then the party's incumbent president and president of the country.
Derek Andre Hanekom is a South African politician, activist and former cabinet minister.
An indirect presidential election was held in South Africa on 25 September 2008 following the resignation of the President Thabo Mbeki. The ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), with a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly of South Africa, elected Kgalema Motlanthe as president. The ANC indicated that Motlanthe would be a "caretaker" president until the 2009 election, after which ANC president Jacob Zuma would take office.
Barbara Hogan is a former Minister of Health and of Public Enterprises in the Cabinet of South Africa.
Vusumzi "Vusi" Pikoli is a South African advocate and the former head of South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority. He is noted for instigating criminal charges against disgraced South African police commissioner Jackie Selebi and ANC president Jacob Zuma. In 2008 he was suspended from his duties by President Thabo Mbeki, a close confidant of Selebi, and then subsequently fired by Mbeki's successor, Kgalema Motlanthe, who is an ally of Zuma. As such, opposition parties and sections of the press have claimed Pikoli is the victim of two separate political conspiracies. In October 2014 Pikoli was appointed as the Western Cape's first police ombudsman by Premier Helen Zille, whose choice was unanimously backed by the provincial legislature's standing committee on community safety.
Membathisi Mdladlana is a South African politician. He is the South African High Commissioner to Canada as of November 2012.
The following lists events that happened during 2010 in South Africa.
The Transnet Freight Rail Class 39-200 of 2009 is a South African diesel-electric locomotive.
The Transnet Freight Rail Class 43-000 of 2011 is a South African diesel-electric locomotive.
The following lists events that happened during 2011 in South Africa.
The 53rd National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) was held in Mangaung, Free State in December 2012. It re-elected Jacob Zuma and supporters to the party's top leadership and National Executive Committee (NEC), substantially defeating an opposing group that had coalesced around challenger Kgalema Motlanthe.
Events in the year 2013 in South Africa.
The 50th ANC national conference was held in Mafikeng (Mahikeng), North West Province from December 16–20, 1997. More than 3,000 delegates attended the conferences voted to choose their leaders among 200 candidates for the 60-member committee. Emphasizing his intention to retire, President Nelson Mandela rejected a nomination during the proceedings. Thabo Mbeki was elected the new President of the ANC.
The African National Congress retained majorities in the National Assembly of South Africa & National Council of Provinces as well as in eight of the nine provincial legislatures, but lost control of the Western Cape. Members are elected using party-list proportional representation.
Maximum Security Prison is an inactive prison at Robben Island in Table Bay, 6.9 kilometers (4.3 mi) west of the coast of Bloubergstrand, Cape Town, South Africa. It is prominent because Nobel Laureate and former President of South Africa Nelson Mandela was imprisoned there for 18 of the 27 years he served behind bars before the fall of apartheid. After that, three former inmates of this prison Nelson Mandela, Kgalema Motlanthe, and Jacob Zuma have gone on to become President of South Africa.
