Joe Malahlela

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Joe Malahlela
Member of the National Assembly
In office
2002–2009
Personal details
Born1972/1973
Mankweng, Transvaal
South Africa
Died(2011-02-26)26 February 2011 (aged 38)
Citizenship South Africa
Political party African National Congress
Other political
affiliations
South African Communist Party
Alma mater University of the North

Mamaroba Johannes "Joe" Malahlela (died 26 February 2011) was a South African politician who represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2002 to 2009. A lawyer by training and a former ANC Youth League activist in Limpopo, he was appointed to the Public Service Commission in 2009.

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Life and career

Mamaroba was born in 1972 or 1973 [1] in Mankweng in the former Northern Transvaal. [2] He was active in anti-apartheid youth politics as a teenager in the 1980s, particularly as a member of the Mankweng Youth Congress. In the 1990s, he studied law at the University of the North, where he served on the student representative council and joined the South African Communist Party. [2] He subsequently rose through the ranks of the ANC, chairing an ANC Youth League branch in Ga-Dikgale and a mainstream ANC branch in Manyoro. [1]

He joined Parliament in 2002 at the age of 29, [2] and he was elected to a full five-year term in the National Assembly in the 2004 general election. [3] In March 2009, he was appointed to the Public Service Commission, where he was serving at the time of his death. [4]

Personal life and death

Malahlela died in a car accident on 26 February 2011 at the age of 38. [1] He was married and had children. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Former ANC MP Malahlela dies". The Mail & Guardian. 28 February 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 "Death of former ANC MP Joe Malahlela". ANC Parliamentary Caucus. 28 February 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2023.
  3. "General Notice: Notice 717 of 2004 - Electoral Commission – List of Names of Representatives in the National Assembly and the Nine Provincial Legislatures in Respect of the Elections Held on 14 April 2004" (PDF). Government Gazette of South Africa . Vol. 466, no. 2677. Pretoria, South Africa: Government of South Africa. 20 April 2004. pp. 4–95. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Statement by the Public Service Commission on the passing away of Commissioner Mamaroba Malahlela". South African Government. 2 March 2011. Retrieved 10 April 2023.