14 Facts About Nkenke Kekana

Nkenke Nathaniel "Nat" Kekana was born on 20 April 1962 and is a South African politician and businessman.

Nkenke Kekana is a former Member of Parliament and co-founded Business Connexion, a leading information technology firm, in 1996.

Nkenke Kekana was elected to two consecutive five-year terms on the ANC National Executive Committee in 2017 and 2022 and was the committee's head of communications from 2018 to 2022.

Nkenke Kekana is known for his ties to ANC Deputy President Paul Mashatile.

Nkenke Kekana was elected as a Member of Parliament in South Africa's first post-apartheid elections in 1994.

Nkenke Kekana was re-elected to the seat in 1999 and in August 1999 he was elected Chairperson of the National Assembly's Portfolio Committee on Communications.

Nkenke Kekana was a member of the African National Congress and a member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC Youth League.

Nkenke Kekana merged with Comparex Africa in 2003 and was listed as Business Connexion.

Nkenke Kekana resigned from Telkom at the end of June 2005 in order to "pursue other career opportunities".

Nkenke Kekana was a member of the Provincial Executive Committee of the ANC in Gauteng and for a period was its spokesperson.

Nkenke Kekana left his post in the Gauteng ANC pursuant to the ANC's 54th National Conference in December 2017, when he was elected for the first time to the ANC National Executive Committee; by number of votes received, he was ranked 41st of the 80 candidates elected to the committee.

Nkenke Kekana was appointed as the head of the National Executive Committee's subcommittee on information and publicity, a full-time role based out of the party's headquarters at Luthuli House in Johannesburg.

Sources told the Sunday Independent that Nkenke Kekana's role became an obstacle to cooperation between the Mashatile campaign and the presidential campaign of Zweli Mkhize: Nkenke Kekana was reportedly an associate of Mdumiseni Ntuli, who was running for the ANC Secretary-General position, but Mkhize's backers in KwaZulu-Natal preferred Phumulo Masualle to Ntuli.

At the conference, Nkenke Kekana was re-elected to another term on the National Executive Committee; he was ranked 57th of the 80 elected candidates by popularity, receiving the support of 1,158 of the 4,029 delegates who voted in the election.