11 Facts About Rubben Mohlaloga

Manyaba Rubben Mohlaloga was born on 8 August 1973 and is a South African politician, civil servant, and convicted fraudster.

Rubben Mohlaloga represented the African National Congress in the National Assembly from 2004 to 2009 and was deputy president of the ANC Youth League from 2001 to 2008.

Rubben Mohlaloga was briefly the chairperson of ICASA from 2017 to 2019.

Rubben Mohlaloga was re-elected to a second term in August 2004, defeating a challenge from Tshilidzi Ratshitanga, and served until April 2008, when he aged out of the league and was succeeded by Andile Lungisa.

Rubben Mohlaloga chaired Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Agriculture and Land Affairs from September 2006 to May 2009, and he chaired the Ad Hoc Committee on the African Peer Review Mechanism.

From 2013 to 2017, Rubben Mohlaloga served on the board of ICASA as a councillor.

In March 2019, after Rubben Mohlaloga was sentenced to a lengthy prison term, the committee resolved that he should be removed from his ICASA office with immediate effect.

Rubben Mohlaloga was convicted of fraud and money laundering in January 2018.

The charges arose from transactions completed in 2008 while Rubben Mohlaloga was chairperson of Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Agriculture.

Rubben Mohlaloga conceded that he had received money from an Agri-BEE grant, but claimed that it was a loan.

In February 2019, a year after his initial conviction, Rubben Mohlaloga's sentence was handed down: the Pretoria Special Commercial Crimes Court sentenced him to 20 years in prison.