# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/penuell-maduna
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:25:26.902Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/penuell-maduna"
name: "Penuell Maduna"
slug: "penuell-maduna"
description: "Penuell Mpapa Maduna is a South African politician and businessman. An anti-apartheid activist in his youth, Maduna was appointed to President Nelson Mandela's government in 1994. Thereafter he served as Minister of Mineral and Energy Affairs and, between 1999 and 2004, as Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development. Holding a doctorate of law from Unisa, he was also a long-time legal adviser to his party, the African National Congress, which he represented during the negotiations to end apartheid."
tagline: "South African politician"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.15
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.075846666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/penuel.maduna.3"
    handle:    "penuel.maduna.3"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penuell_Maduna"
    title: "Penuell Maduna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penuell_Maduna"
    title: "Penuell Maduna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penuell_Maduna"
    title: "Penuell Maduna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penuell_Maduna"
    title: "Penuell Maduna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penuell_Maduna"
    title: "Penuell Maduna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penuell_Maduna"
    title: "Penuell Maduna"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3374973"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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