Pule Mabe | |
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| National Spokesperson of the African National Congress | |
| In office 6 February 2018 – 28 January 2023 | |
| President | Cyril Ramaphosa |
| Preceded by | Zizi Kodwa |
| Succeeded by | Mahlengi Bhengu |
| Member of the National Assembly of South Africa | |
| In office 21 May 2014 – 31 August 2017 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Puleng Peter Mabe 19 March 1980 Phalaborwa, Transvaal South Africa |
| Political party | African National Congress |
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| Profession | Journalist |
Puleng Peter "Pule" Mabe (born 19 March 1980) is a South African politician who served as the national spokesperson of the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa's governing party, from 2018 to 2023. He formerly represented the ANC in the National Assembly from 2014 to 2017.
Mabe rose to national prominence in 2008 when he was elected Treasurer-General of the ANC Youth League, then under the leadership of Julius Malema. Amid divisions over Malema's suspension from the ANC and over Mabe's political support for Jacob Zuma, Mabe was removed from his party position by a motion of no confidence in May 2012 and then reinstated in January 2013. After his term in the league office ended in March 2013, he launched an abortive campaign to succeed Malema as ANC Youth League president. He was elected to Parliament in the 2014 general election but resigned in mid-2017.
Mabe was elected to his first term on the ANC National Executive Committee in 2012. After his re-election at the party's 54th National Conference in December 2017, he was appointed ANC spokesperson in February 2018. He was elected to a third consecutive five-year term on the National Executive Committee in 2022.
A journalist by training, Mabe also had a career in business, and his former business dealings have attracted controversy. A 2012 contract between his company and the state-owned Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa was the subject of a Public Protector investigation and a parliamentary misconduct finding, and in 2014 Mabe was acquitted on a charge of defrauding the South African Social Security Agency.