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Kgalema Motlanthe

1949 - Today

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Kgalema Petrus Motlanthe (Sotho: [ˈkxɑ.le.mɑ mʊ.ˈtɬʼɑ.n.tʰɛ]; born 19 July 1949) is a South African politician who served as the 3rd president of South Africa from 25 September 2008 to 9 May 2009, following the resignation of Thabo Mbeki. Thereafter, he was deputy president under Jacob Zuma from 9 May 2009 to 26 May 2014. Raised in Soweto in the former Transvaal after his family was forcibly removed from Alexandra, Motlanthe was recruited into uMkhonto weSizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), after he finished high school. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kgalema Motlanthe has received more than 1,272,323 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 52 in 2019). Kgalema Motlanthe is the 5,946th most popular politician (up from 6,227th in 2019), the 32nd most popular biography from South Africa (up from 33rd in 2019) and the 12th most popular South African Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Kgalema Motlanthe ranks 5,946 out of 19,576. Before him are Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, Cicero Minor, Karl Thopia, Bernard of Septimania, Milan Obrenović II, Prince of Serbia, and Mōri Terumoto. After him are Sergei Bagapsh, Ashur-uballit I, Prince Robert, Duke of Chartres, Prince Frederick of the Netherlands, Federica Montseny, and Empress Dowager Longyu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Kgalema Motlanthe ranks 113. Before him are Andy Kaufman, Ranil Wickremesinghe, Fernando Collor de Mello, Victor Garber, Brad Davis, and Brigitte Bierlein. After him are Sergei Bagapsh, Walid Jumblatt, Armand Assante, John Toshack, Hans-Hermann Hoppe, and Alan Menken.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe ranks 32 out of 454. Before him are Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), D. F. Malan (1874), Basil Rathbone (1892), Seymour Papert (1928), Jan Smuts (1870), and Abba Eban (1915). After him are Michael Levitt (1947), Peter Abrahams (1919), Arnold Vosloo (1962), André Brink (1935), Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), and Santos (null).

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Among POLITICIANS In South Africa

Among politicians born in South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe ranks 12. Before him are Paul Kruger (1825), P. W. Botha (1916), Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (1936), D. F. Malan (1874), Jan Smuts (1870), and Abba Eban (1915). After him are Cetshwayo kaMpande (1826), Andries Pretorius (1798), Louis Botha (1862), C. R. Swart (1894), John Vorster (1915), and Marais Viljoen (1915).

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