Sejamothopo "Sej" Motau is a politician, journalist, communications and corporate affairs expert, and a former Fulbright Scholar.
Education
A Fulbright scholar. Sej holds a Master of Journalism degree from the University of California, Berkeley. A Bachelor (Honours) degree in communication and a Bachelor degree in communication and psychology from the University of South Africa.
Career
From 2009 to 2012, he was the Shadow Minister of Energy. Motau is a former journalist with the Pretoria News and The Star, and holds undergraduate and honours degrees from the University of South Africa, and a master"s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley. Motau has worked as divisional manager of corporate affairs at Mercedes-Benz South Africa, and as head of corporate affairs at Transnet and Sasol.
He worked as an independent communications consultant prior to joining the Democratic Alliance.
Sej was born in Lady Selborne, Pretoria, on 18 July 1943. He started his working career as a book-keeper with the City Council of Pretoria in Atteridgeville, his current constituency.
A former journalist, he has worked for the Pretoria News where his beats were education, labor and politics in that order, the hot topics of the day. He then joined the Africa Edition of The Star where he covered southern African politics.
Once he joined the District Attorney, they immediately put him to work and made him Shadow minister of Energy in 2009.
His diverse work experience has given him a keen sense of whats going on within South Africa and makes him able to point-out corruption within Eskom, the state-owned energy provider of South Africa. A former chairman and director of various companies, Sej has held several senior management positions in some of the biggest corporations in South Africa, including Anglo American Corporation, De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited, Transnet Limited, Sasol Limited and Mercedes Benz South Africa. During his time at De Beers he was seconded to the company"s marketing arm in London, the Diamond Trading Company, where his brief was the United States of America.
Politics
That sharpened his keen interest in politics but he did not become a member of any political party until he joined the District Attorney in 2008.
Membership
He is currently South Africa"s Shadow Minister of Presidency, and a Member of Parliament for the opposition Democratic Alliance.