# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/baleka-mbete
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:40:19.441Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/baleka-mbete"
name: "Baleka Mbete"
slug: "baleka-mbete"
description: "Baleka Mbete is a South African politician who was the Deputy President of South Africa from September 2008 to May 2009. She was also the Speaker of the National Assembly for two non-consecutive terms from 2004 to 2008 and from 2014 to 2019. She also served as Deputy Speaker between 1996 and 2004. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), she was first elected to the National Assembly in 1994 and stepped down from her seat in 2019."
tagline: "South African politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Baleka_Mbete.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1949-09-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.78
  momentum:             0
  historical:           17.39291333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "باليكا مبيتي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "バレカ・ムベテ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Мбете, Балека"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baleka_Mbete"
    title: "Baleka Mbete"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Baleka Mbete"
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    title: "بالیکا مبیٹے"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump