Chairperson
of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence since 1994.
Member
of the Joint Standing Committee on Defence since 1994.
Member
of Parliament since 2004.
Member
of National Executive Council (NEC) of African National Congress (ANC) since
December 2007.
Academic
Qualifications
Matriculated
from Mount Arthur High School.
Primary
Teacher's Diploma from the Bensonvale Teacher TRG College.
Project
Management with Canadian University Studies (CUSO).
Obtained
the following:
Basic
Human Relations Course.
Community
Development course.
Communications
course.
Studying
Psychology with the Newport University.
Career/Positions/Memberships/Other
Activities
Teacher
at Bensonvale Junior Secondary School (1978).
Teacher
at St Matthews Teachers' Training College (1979).
Youth
Worker with Target Timothy (A project of SANSSA) (1981 - 1982).
Worked
with open schools to help students from disadvantaged communities who were
matric drop-outs.
Founder
member of the East London Domestic Workers Association (ELDWA) (1982).
Assistant
Director of Masazane Open School (a project of the South African Institute of
Race Relation-SAIRR)(1982 - 1984).
Served
as Head of Commission set up to investigate desertions of ANC MK members to the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Angola (1984).
Left
the country and underwent military training in Angola and the Soviet Union
respectively (1984).
Member
of political and military structures (Soviet Union) (1985).
Attended
Equality Development and Peace seminar in Nairobi (1985).
Worked
with the political military structures (ANC) (1986 - 1988).
Representative
of the ANC Women's section to Pan African Women's Organisation (PAWO) (1988 -
1990).
Attended
PAWO Regional seminar on the emancipation of women in Lusaka (1989).
Deployed
in the country to help rebuild ANC structures (1990).
Attended
Malibongwe Conference in Amsterdam (1990).
National
organiser of the ANC Women's League and member of its National Executive (1990
- 1993).
Member
of the Theme 3 Core Group of the Constitution Making Process since 1994.
Secretary-General
of the ANC Women's League (1993 - 1995).
Member
of the ANC National Executive Committee (NEC) (1994 - 1997).
Attended
World Racism conference in Durban (2001).
Deputy
Chairperson of ANC Political Committee and Chief Whip of majority party (2001).
Deputy
Minister of Home Affairs of the Republic of South Africa (6 May 2002 - 28 April
2004).
Minister
of Home Affairs of the Republic of South Africa (29 April 2004 - 10 May 2009).
Minister
of Home Affairs of the Republic of South Africa until 10 May 2009.
President
of African National Congress Women League (ANCWL) (2003 - 3 July 2008).
Trained
in Youth Leadership and Community Development (NYLTP).
Represented
the ANC Women's section to the People's Republic of Angola for two years.
Attended
2nd ANC Consultative seminar in Kabwe (1985).
Worked
closely with women's organisations inside and outside the country.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Leave Your Comment Here