# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mac-maharaj
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:11:43.722Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mac-maharaj"
name: "Mac Maharaj"
slug: "mac-maharaj"
description: "Sathyandranath Ragunanan \"Mac\" Maharaj OLS is a retired South African-Indian politician, businessman, and former anti-apartheid activist. A member of the African National Congress (ANC), he was the first post-apartheid minister of transport from 1994 to 1999. He was later the official spokesperson to the president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma."
tagline: "South African politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mac_Maharaj_2021.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1935-04-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.58
  momentum:             1.783166904422254
  historical:           8.163069333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mac_Maharaj"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Maharaj"
    title: "Mac Maharaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Maharaj"
    title: "Mac Maharaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Maharaj"
    title: "Mac Maharaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Maharaj"
    title: "Mac Maharaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DA%A9_%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AC"
    title: "مک ماهاراج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Maharaj"
    title: "Mac Maharaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Maharaj"
    title: "Mac Maharaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Maharaj"
    title: "Mac Maharaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_Maharaj"
    title: "Mac Maharaj"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6722315"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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