# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jessie-duarte
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:24:13.386Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jessie-duarte"
name: "Jessie Duarte"
slug: "jessie-duarte"
description: "Yasmin \"Jessie\" Duarte was a South African politician and acting secretary-general of the African National Congress. A longtime anti-apartheid activist, she served variously as a special assistant to Nelson Mandela, a member of the provincial cabinet (MEC) for Gauteng, as ambassador to Mozambique, and as spokesperson for the ANC, before assuming her post as Deputy Secretary-General of the ANC in 2012, until her death on 17 July 2022."
tagline: "South African politician (1953–2022)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jessie_Duarte_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1953-09-19"
deathDate: "2022-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.12
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.009072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Duarte"
    title: "Jessie Duarte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Duarte"
    title: "Jessie Duarte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%8A"
    title: "جيسي دوارتي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Duarte"
    title: "Jessie Duarte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Duarte"
    title: "Jessie Duarte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%B3%DB%8C_%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%87"
    title: "جسی دوارته"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Duarte"
    title: "Jessie Duarte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Duarte"
    title: "Jessie Duarte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Duarte"
    title: "Jessie Duarte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Duarte"
    title: "Jessie Duarte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Duarte"
    title: "Jessie Duarte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6187669"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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