Jerome Maake
MP
Chairperson of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence
Assumed office
14 November 2019
Preceded byAmos Masondo
Member of the National Assembly
Assumed office
6 May 2009
Personal details
Born
Jerome Joseph Maake
NationalitySouth African
Political partyAfrican National Congress (1980-present)
Alma materUniversity of the Western Cape
Napier University
Stellenbosch University
OccupationMember of Parliament
ProfessionPolitician

Jerome Joseph Maake is a South African politician and former political prisoner under apartheid who has been the Chairperson of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence since 2019. A member of the African National Congress, Maake has been a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa since 2009.

Background

Maake graduated from the University of Western Cape with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and holds a degree in Business Management from Napier University. He has a Master's degree in Economic Policy from Stellenbosch University.[1][2]

Maake joined the ANC in 1980 while in Swaziland. He was a UMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) soldier and trained in Angola. He returned to South Africa in 1981 and conducted MK operations in the then Northern Transvaal. In 1982 Maake was arrested and sentenced to thirteen years imprisonment at Robben Island. He appealed the sentence in 1985 and won the appeal. There was a re-trail in Pietermaritzburg and he was given a suspended sentence. After the 1985 State of Emergency, he left South Africa and travelled to Angola again and attended a MK refresher course. In 1986, he returned to South Africa again and operated in the Mawudse area.[3]

Parliamentary career

In 2009, Maake was elected to the National Assembly of South Africa as an African National Congress representative and has been re-elected since in 2014 and 2019.[2] He has served on the police, intelligence, defence, education, arts and culture, and public enterprises committees.[2]

On 14 November 2019, he was appointed as chairperson of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Jerome Joseph Maake". People's Assembly. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "Mr Jerome Joseph Maake". Parliament of South Africa. 29 March 2022. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  3. ^ "DATE: 29TH FEBRUARY 2000". www.justice.gov.za. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  4. ^ "JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE APPOINTS CHAIRPERSON AND MEMBERS". Parliament of South Africa. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
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