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Pule Thole

South African politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ61625043 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pule Isaac Thole is a South African advocate and former SAPS brigadier who served as a Member of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature for the Democratic Alliance from 2014 to 2016.

Biography

Thole served as a brigadier in the South African Police Service until his election to the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature in May 2014. He was one of seven Democratic Alliance members. Thole was the party's spokesperson on transport, safety and liaison.

In January 2016, Thole announced his resignation from the DA. His resignation came into effect in mid-March. The DA appointed Melinda Hattingh to fill his seat in the legislature.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Pule Thole” is south African politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pule, Thole and South, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Pule, Thole and South is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q61625043. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pule Thole” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.