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Hlengiwe Mkhize
Hlengiwe Buhle Mkhize (6 September 1952 – 16 September 2021) was a South African politician who served as Minister of Higher Education and Training and Minister of Home Affairs under President Jacob Zuma. A member of the National Assembly and national executive since May 2009, she was Deputy Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities when she died in September 2021. Mkhize trained in clinical psychology and spent over a decade in academia at the University of Zululand and University of the Witwatersrand, until in 1995 she was appointed to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She chaired the commission's Reparations and Rehabilitation Committee. She went on to serve as South African Ambassador to the Netherlands from 2005 to 2008 before she was elected to the National Assembly in the 2009 general election. Between 2009 and 2017, Mkhize served Zuma's administration as a deputy minister in four different portfolios: she was Deputy Minister o ...
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The Honourable
''The Honourable'' (Commonwealth English) or ''The Honorable'' (American English; American and British English spelling differences#-our, -or, see spelling differences) (abbreviation: ''Hon.'', ''Hon'ble'', or variations) is an honorific Style (manner of address), style that is used as a prefix before the names or titles of certain people, usually with official governmental or diplomatic positions. Use by governments International diplomacy In international diplomatic relations, representatives of foreign states are often styled as ''The Honourable''. Deputy chiefs of mission, , consuls-general, consuls and honorary consuls are always given the style. All heads of consular posts, whether they are honorary or career postholders, are accorded the style according to the State Department of the United States. However, the style ''Excellency'' instead of ''The Honourable'' is used for ambassadors and high commissioners only. Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo In the Democrati ...
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List Of Presidents And Vice-presidents Of The Assembly Of States Parties Of The International Criminal Court
The Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court The International Criminal Court (ICC) is an intergovernmental organization and International court, international tribunal seated in The Hague, Netherlands. It is the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute ... (ICC) elects a president and two vice-presidents of the assembly to serve three-year terms. In December 2004, the Assembly's Bureau established two working groups based in the two main locations relevant to its work, The Hague and New York. At first, these working groups had separate coordinators, but since the presidency of the 7th to 9th sessions, they have each been coordinated by one of the vice-presidents. The following table lists the presidents and vice-presidents of the Assembly of States Parties since the ICC's inception in 2002. The vice-presidents of the first two presidencies are listed according to the location of their diplomatic positions at the time. ...
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Loretta Jacobus
Loretta Jacobus (born 6 April 1962), formerly known as Loretta Bastardo-Ibanez, is a South African politician who served as Deputy Minister of Correctional Services from February 2006 to May 2009. She represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2004 to 2013. Before joining the National Assembly, Jacobus served in the National Council of Provinces from 1999 to 2004 and in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature from 1994 to 1999. She was active in the anti-apartheid struggle and represented the South African Communist Party (SACP) during the multi-party constitutional negotiations of 1993. Early life and career Jacobus was born on 6 April 1962 in Port Elizabeth in the former Cape Province. She studied social work at the University of the Western Cape and in the 1980s was a teacher and social worker in the Transvaal, where she was also active in anti-apartheid organising through affiliates of the United Democratic Front, notably the South Af ...
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Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula
Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula (; born 13 November 1956) is a South African politician of the African National Congress (ANC). She was a Cabinet of South Africa, cabinet minister from 2004 to 2021 and the Speaker of the National Assembly of South Africa, Speaker of the National Assembly from 2021 to 2024. A former president of the ANC Women's League, she was an elected member of the ANC National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, National Executive Committee between 2002 and 2022. Raised in the Eastern Cape, Mapisa-Nqakula trained as a teacher and worked in youth development until 1984, when she left South Africa to join UMkhonto we Sizwe, Umkhonto we Sizwe in exile. She returned to the country in 1990 and became a national organiser for the newly relaunched ANC Women's League; she was later its secretary-general from 1993 to 1997 under league president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. She joined the National Assembly of South Africa, National Assembly as a backb ...
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Minister Of Correctional Services (South Africa)
The minister of correctional services (formerly the minister of prisons) is a minister in the Cabinet of South Africa. The minister is responsible for overseeing the Department of Correctional Services. The office was re-established in June 2024; between May 2014 and June 2024, the correctional services portfolio was the purview of the minister of justice and correctional services. History Before 1990, correctional services were administered by the minister of justice; a separate department and ministerial portfolio were established only after extensive prison reforms were announced in 1990, under the cabinet of F.W. de Klerk. Before 1994 the minister was called the minister of prisons, and in 1994 he became the minister of correctional services. Announcing his second cabinet in May 2014, President Jacob Zuma merged the correctional services portfolio with the justice portfolio, creating the minister of justice and correctional services. On 30 June 2024, the merger was rev ...
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Mduduzi Manana
Mduduzi Comfort Manana (born 12 February 1984) is a South African politician from Mpumalanga. He was the Deputy Minister of Higher Education and Training from 2012 to 2017 and represented the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly from 2009 to 2018. Manana rose to political prominence through the ANC Youth League and was aged 28 when President Jacob Zuma appointed him as a deputy minister in June 2012. He resigned from that office in August 2017 after he was charged with assaulting three women outside a Johannesburg nightclub; he pled guilty to the charges the following month. He remained an ordinary member of the National Assembly until July 2018, when he submitted to ongoing pressure to resign. Manana has been a member of the ANC National Executive Committee since December 2017. Since early 2023, he has worked full-time for the party as head of organising at Luthuli House. Early life and career Manana was born on 12 February 1984 in Ermelo in the fo ...
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Minister Of Higher Education And Training
The minister of higher education is the minister in the Cabinet of South Africa with responsibility for higher education in South Africa. The post was created as the minister of higher education and training in May 2009. It was called the minister of higher education, science and technology between May 2019 and June 2024. History Before 10 May 2009, higher education was the responsibility of the minister of education. On 10 May 2009, announcing his first cabinet, President Jacob Zuma bifurcated that portfolio, creating the new minister of higher education and training, alongside a minister of basic education. When President Cyril Ramaphosa announced his second-term cabinet on 29 May 2019, he announced that the Ministry of Science and Technology would be absorbed by the higher education portfolio, creating the enlarged portfolio of the new minister of higher education, Science and Technology. However, Ramaphosa reversed the merger in his third cabinet, announced on 30 Ju ...
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Madala Masuku
Madala Backson Masuku (born 6 June 1965) is a South African politician, a former Member of Parliament of South Africa (MP) and a Member of the African National Congress ( ANC). He is also a Central Committee member of the South African Communist Party (SACP). He was a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa and the Deputy Minister of Economic Development from 2014 to 2019. Masuku also served as a Member of the Mpumalanga Executive Council for Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs and Finance under premier David Mabuza. See also *African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights *Constitution of South Africa *History of the African National Congress *Politics in South Africa *Provincial governments of South Africa The nine provinces of South Africa are governed by provincial governments which form the second layer of government, between the national government and the municipalities. The provincial governments are established, and their structure defined .. ...
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Ebrahim Patel
Ebrahim Patel (born 10 January 1962) is a South African politician and former trade unionist who represents the African National Congress. He served as the Minister of Trade and Industry (South Africa), Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition from 2019 to 2024 and as Minister of Economic Development (South Africa), Minister of Economic Development from 2009 to 2019. Raised in Cape Town, Patel rose to prominence in the Trade unions in South Africa, trade union movement, notably as secretary-general of the Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Southern African Clothing and Textile Workers' Union from 1993 to 2009. In that capacity, he was labour convenor at the National Economic Development and Labour Council during the Internal resistance to apartheid, post-apartheid transition, as well as a member of the executive of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. President Jacob Zuma appointed Patel to Cabinet of South Africa, the cabinet after the 2009 South Afr ...
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Enoch Godongwana
Enoch Godongwana (born 9 June 1957) is a South African politician and former trade unionist who is currently serving as the Minister of Finance since August 2021. He is a member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC). Born in the Eastern Cape, Godongwana rose to political prominence as the general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers between 1993 and 1997. After that, from 1997 to 2004, he served in the Executive Council of the Eastern Cape as Member of the Executive Council for Finance. He was first elected to the ANC National Executive Committee in December 1997, and he was the Deputy Provincial Chairperson of the ANC's Eastern Cape branch from 2003 to 2006 under Chairperson Makhenkesi Stofile. Premier Nosimo Balindlela sacked him from the Executive Council under controversial circumstances in September 2004. Between May 2009 and January 2012, Godongwana was a deputy minister under the first cabinet of President Jacob Zuma. ...
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