# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brigitte-mabandla
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:44:13.404Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brigitte-mabandla"
name: "Brigitte Mabandla"
slug: "brigitte-mabandla"
description: "Brigitte Sylvia Mabandla is a South African politician, lawyer and former anti-apartheid activist who served in the cabinet of South Africa from 2003 to 2009, including as the Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development from 2004 to 2008. She became the South African Ambassador to Sweden in January 2020. A veteran of the African National Congress (ANC), she was an elected member of party's National Executive Committee between 1997 and 2012."
tagline: "South African politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brigitte_Mabandla%2C_former_Minister_for_Justice%2C_South_Africa_(sq_cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1948-11-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.79
  momentum:             10
  historical:           7.743557333333333
  currentAttention:     30
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mabandla"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mabandla"
    title: "Brigitte Mabandla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mabandla"
    title: "Brigitte Mabandla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mabandla"
    title: "Brigitte Mabandla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mabandla"
    title: "Brigitte Mabandla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mabandla"
    title: "Brigitte Mabandla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mabandla"
    title: "Brigitte Mabandla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mabandla"
    title: "Brigitte Mabandla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mabandla"
    title: "Brigitte Mabandla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brigitte_Mabandla"
    title: "Brigitte Mabandla"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2925452"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump