Collins Chabane

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Ohm Collins Chabane (born April 15, 1960 in Xikundu, Transvaal , † March 15, 2015 in Polokwane ) was a South African politician of the African National Congress (ANC). From May 2009 to May 2014 he was Minister for the President for Performance Monitoring, Evaluation and Administration of the Presidential Office. In 2014 he was appointed Minister of Public Service and Administration.

Life

Chabane became a member of the ANC at age 17 and enrolled for a Bachelor of Science degree on the University of the North's Turfloop campus in 1979 . In the same year he was one of the founding members of the Azanian Students Organization (AZASO), the forerunner of today's student association South African Students Congress (SASCO).

In 1980 he joined the underground organization Umkhonto we Sizwe and went into exile, where he completed military training. He studied management in Arusha , Tanzania , and received a diploma. In 1984 he was arrested in South Africa and sentenced to six years in prison for terrorism . He spent part of the prison term on Robben Island . In prison he completed a degree in electrical engineering with a focus on electrical power engineering at the University of South Africa in Pretoria , which he completed with a university diploma. He also studied aeronautical engineering. In 1990 Chabane, who has been a member of the ANC since 1980, initially became the administrator of the ANC in the Northern Transvaal region of the then Transvaal Province. Immediately thereafter, he became Provincial Secretary of the ANC in the Northern Province in the same year and held this position until 1998.

In 1994 he was elected a member of the National Assembly for the first time as a candidate of the ANC and was a member of it until 1997. During that time he was a member of the Joint Defense and Intelligence Committee and the Standing Committee on Finance, Minerals and Energy Matters. He was also a member of the Constitutional and Management Committees of the Constitutional Assembly. Chabane was briefly a member of the former Senate in 1997, which was subsequently dissolved and reorganized as a provincial council .

In 1997 he was elected a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northern Province, which was renamed Limpopo in 2002, and has been a member since then. First he was a member of the Executive Council (provincial minister) in the office of Prime Minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi until 1998 and was henceforth a member of the executive council for public works as well as for economic development, environment and tourism of the Limpopo province. He was also the chairman of the provincial disciplinary committee.

Chabane, who was a member of the National Executive Committee of the ANC from 2007, was re-elected a member of the National Assembly in 2009 and was a member of it until his death.

After Jacob Zuma was elected as the new President of South Africa , Chabane was appointed Minister for Performance Monitoring, Evaluation and Administration of the Presidential Office in the Zuma I cabinet on May 10, 2009 . 2014 he received the Cabinet Zuma II the department Public Service and Administration (Public Service and Administration).

Chabane directed the marimba band Movement, with which he recorded two albums.

In 2015 he died together with his chauffeur and a bodyguard in a traffic accident on National Route 1 near Polokwane.

Honors

Web links

  • Entry in Who's Who in South Africa (online version)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d portrait at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on March 15, 2015
  2. ^ South African Provinces (rulers.org)
  3. ^ Minister Collins Chabane killed in car crash. ( Memento from March 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) citypress.co.za from March 15, 2015 (English)
  4. ↑ Chabane death crash: driver charged. iol.co.za of March 15, 2015 (English), accessed March 15, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Chabane, Collins
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chabane, Ohm Collins (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Xikundu, Transvaal
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 2015
Place of death at Polokwane