Jacob Boy Otto Marule is a South African politician who has represented the

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(ANC) in the

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since 2019. During an earlier period of service in the provincial legislature, he was

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(MEC) for Agriculture from March 2012 until July 2013. A former member of

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(MK), he is active in the

ANC Veterans' League The African National Congress Veterans' League (ANCVL) is an auxiliary political organisation of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa. Its members are ANC veterans, defined as people aged 60 or older who have belonged to the ANC f ...

. Marule was a member of MK's Luthuli Detachment, which undertook the Wankie Campaign of 1967. While in exile with MK, he met Canadian activist Marie Smallface, whom he married; they had at least one child, a daughter named Tsuaki. Marule was at one point the Deputy Mayor of Chase, Canada. On 13 March 2012, he was appointed to the Limpopo Executive Council by

Cassel Mathale Cassel Mathale (born 23 January 1961) is a South African politician who was the third Premier of Limpopo between March 2009 and July 2013. He is currently the Deputy Minister of Police in the South African government and before that was Deputy ...

, then the

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, who appointed him MEC for Agriculture. In March 2013, workers in the provincial Department of Agriculture called for his resignation in protests organised by the

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and the Public Service Association, which alleged that Marule interfered improperly in the department's administrative processes. Months later, in July 2013, Mathale was succeeded as Premier by Stan Mathabatha, who announced a wide-ranging cabinet reshuffle the day after he took office; Marule was one of eight MECs fired. Marule did not stand for re-election to the provincial legislature in the 2014 general election. However, in the next general election in 2019, he was ranked 29th on the ANC's provincial

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and regained his legislative seat. He was the Provincial Chairperson of the ANC Veterans' League in Limpopo by 2017, and he remained in that office as of March 2022.

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* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people African National Congress politicians Members of the Limpopo Provincial Legislature UMkhonto we Sizwe personnel 21st-century South African politicians {{DEFAULTSORT:Marule_Jacob