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Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula



Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula, Ms 

PersonalDate of Birth: 13 November 1956

Marital Status: Married

Current Positions: Minister of Defence and Military Veterans of the Republic of South Africa since 12 June 2012.


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.

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