Bejani Chauke

Bejani Chauke (born 16 June 1971) is a South African political strategist and a member of South Africa's 7th parliament, who was the principal political advisor to the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, from 2018. He is also known for managing the CR17 campaign that secured Ramaphosa's election as president of the African National Congress (ANC) at the ANC's 54th National Conference in December 2017. He was formerly a political advisor to Thandi Modise while she was Premier of the North West and Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces. In November 2022, the Financial Mail reported that Chauke had resigned as Ramaphosa's political advisor amid his campaign for election as ANC Treasurer-General at the party's 55th National Conference. Quotes We drove from Upington to the Naskop [sic: Nakop] border post, where we completed all the necessary paperwork on the South African side. We then drove to No Man’s Land where we waited for the Namibian police to meet us The instruction was to alert me to the incident such that I could properly carry out my duties in respect of protecting the president and his family, “It should be noted that President Ramaphosa was chairing the [African Union] summit and was exceptionally busy at that time.” It is beyond the scope of my work to be allocated matters or case dockets to conduct criminal investigations External links Category:Living people