Tarsis Bazana Kabwegyere is a Ugandan sociologist,

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and

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. He is the current{{when minister of general duties, Office of the Prime Minister in the Ugandan cabinet. He was appointed to that position on 23 May 2013. Before that, from 15 August 2012 until 23 May 2013, he was the minister of gender, labour and social affairs. At first, the parliamentary committee vetting cabinet appointments rejected his selection, but after discussions between President Yoweri Museveni and Speaker

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, he was finally approved on 7 September 2012. Earlier, he was the minister of disaster relief and planning in the Ugandan cabinet, from 1 June 2006 until 27 May 2011. In the cabinet reshuffle of 27 May 2011, he was dropped from the cabinet and was replaced by Stephen Mallinga. He was also the elected

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representing Igara County West,

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, from 1996 until 2011.{{cite web, title=Nduhura, Kabwegyere Out, Karooro In, date=5 September 2010, accessdate=4 March 2015, first=Chris, last=Mugasha, url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/731053, newspaper= New Vision , location=Kampala, url-status=dead, archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402145706/http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/13/731053, archivedate=2 April 2015

Background and education

He was born in

on 26 April 1941. He has the degree of

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in sociology. His

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degree is in

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. He also has a degree of

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in the same field. All his academic degrees were awarded by

Makerere University Makerere University, Kampala (; Mak) is Uganda's largest and oldest institution of higher learning, first established as a technical school in 1922. It became an independent national university in 1970. Today, Makerere University is composed of n ...

, Uganda's oldest and largest public university, founded in 1922. After

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's seizure of power in Uganda in 1971, Kabwegyere joined the

Save Uganda Movement The Save Uganda Movement (abbreviated SUM) was a militant Ugandan opposition group which fought against the Second Republic of Uganda, government of President of Uganda, President Idi Amin from 1973 to 1979. Described as "specialists in sabotage" ...

, a militant group attempting to overthrow Amin.{{cite web , url=http://www.archive.observer.ug/specials/mylife/mylife200712131.php , title=We wanted to hit OAU delegates , author=Michael Mubangizi , newspaper=The Weekly Observer , date=13 December 2007 , access-date=4 January 2021

Career

Following the fall of the Amin's regime in 1979, Kabwegyere was appointed minister of lands and natural resources, having that position until 1980. From 1982 until 1987, he was the head of the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of

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at Makerere University. Following the removal of

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from power and the overthrow of the military junta of

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, Kabwegyere became a member of the National Resistance Council, the parliamentary body in Uganda from 1986 until 1996. He was also served the state minister for foreign affairs from 1987 until 1991. Between 1991 and 1996, he was the director of external relations at the National Resistance Movement Secretariat. He was appointed to the Disaster Relief Ministry in June 2006, until he was dropped from the cabinet in May 2011. He continuously represented Igara County West,

in the Uganda Parliament from 1996 until 2011. In 2010, he was defeated during the primary elections by Raphael Magezi, also of the

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political party, the

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member of parliament.

Personal details

Kabwegyere is married. He belongs to the

political party. He is reported{{by whom, date=March 2023 to enjoy playing

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and participating in

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Full Ministerial Cabinet List, June 2006
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Full Ministerial Cabinet List, May 2011Full Cabinet List As At 1 March 2015
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Career

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