Mcebisi Jonas Author

Mcebisi Jonas is the former deputy finance minister of South Africa, a position he held from 2014 until 2016, in addition to being a member of the National Assembly of South Africa. Jonas was born in itenhage in the Eastern Cape. He has been politically active since the age of 14, including in the United Democratic Front and the African National Congress. After returning to South Africa from exile in the 1990s, Jonas served in the provincial Eastern Cape structures before being appointed to the National Treasury.