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South African politician and businessman (born )

Mcebisi Hubert Jonas (born ) is a South African politician and businessman who was the Deputy Minister of Finance of South Africa between May and March He is best known as a state capture whistleblower.

In , he publicly alleged that the Gupta brothers had offered him the post of finance minister under President Jacob Zuma.

Born in the Eastern Cape, Jonas was an anti-apartheid activist in Port Elizabeth and a founding member of the United Democratic Front.

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A former head of the Eastern Cape Development Corporation, he joined the Eastern Cape Provincial Legislature as a representative of the African National Congress (ANC). Between and , he was a Member of the Executive Council of the Eastern Cape under Premier Noxolo Kiviet.

He launched two unsuccessful campaigns to become provincial chairperson of the Eastern Cape ANC, in and respectively.

Jonas joined the National Assembly in the general election and was appoin