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Steve Vukhile Tshwete

Date of Birth: 12 November 1938
Place of Birth: Springs, Transvaal, South Africa
Died: 26 April 2002


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Live by the sword

In the 1990s a former ANC Youth League leader (and Minister of Environmental Affairs and Tourism) Peter Mokaba used the Kill the Boer slogan in public to the chagrin of ANC moderates and leaders like Nelson Mandela and the late Steve Tshwete...


Looking down the line

In 2001 Mbeki endorsed his Police Minister Steve Tshwete when the latter publicly accused Ramaphosa and two other leading ANC members Tokyo Sexwale and Matthews Phosa of a plot to unseat the President and 'endanger Mbeki's life'...


Congress gets scratchy

Mosiuoa (formerly Patrick) 'Terror' Lekota (now Defence Minister) won the national chairpersonship with support from Cosatu and SACP delegates against the Mbeki-backed candidate Steve Tshwete...


Mbeki's front line

After the late Steve Tshwete's allegations last year of a plot against Mbeki Zuma was persuaded to state publicly his lack of interest in challenging him at the polls...


The plots thicken

The Minister of Safety and Security Steve Tshwete is not known for political finesse...


Market failure

But mistrust again arose when Steve Tshwete the Safety and Security Minister hammered the Portuguese community for a protest march against crime and a highly critical letter to President Thabo Mbeki...


Policemen plod on

The new gung-ho anti-crime strategy comes from Steve Tshwete who succeeded the cautious Sydney Mufamadi as Minister of Safety and Security in June last year...


Blame for the bombs

However Steve Tshwete the new Safety and Security Minister says PAGAD now operates on a small cell system and informants are scarce...


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