Maite Nkoana-Mashabane

Maite Nkoana-Mashabane

Maite Emily Nkoana-Mashabane (born September 30, 1963 in Makgobaskloof, Transvaal , today Limpopo Province ; born as Maite Emily Nkoana ) is a South African diplomat and politician .

biography

Maite Nkoana grew up in Ga-Makanye (now Limpopo). During the 1980s she was an active member of the United Democratic Front (UDF), founded in August 1983, and worked on several bodies of the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) as well as in the underground structures of the African National Congress (ANC). After the ANC's ban was lifted in 1990, she was particularly active in the ANC ( ANC Women's League ) women's association and helped set up structures in the Republic of South Africa. Between 1992 and 1995 she was not only chairman of the ANC Women's League in Limpopo Province , but also a member of the National Working Committee of the ANC Women's League . She was also a member of the National Assembly between 1994 and 1995 .

In 1995 she was appointed High Commissioner in Malaysia . In this position, which she held until 1999, she was also accredited as ambassador to the Philippines and Brunei . Between 1999 and November 2004 she was High Commissioner in India and as such was also accredited as Ambassador to Sri Lanka , Bangladesh , the Maldives and Nepal .

In November 2004 she returned to South Africa and in January 2005 she became a member of the Executive Council (MEC) for local government and housing in the government of Limpopo Province. During this time, her agency won the 2008 Govan Mbeki National Housing Award for the best housing authority in a province. She was also voted Woman of the Year 2008 in the media by the Pietersburg Chamber of Commerce .

At the same time, she took over management positions in the ANC again from 2004 and was initially Deputy Secretary General of the ANC in the province of Limpopo between 2004 and 2008 and at the same time a member of the National Executive Committee and the National Working Committee of the ANC Women's League.

Since 2007, Nkoana-Mashabane has been the head of the Progressive Women's Movement (PWM) of Limpopo Province and also a member of the National Executive Committee and the National Working Committee of the ANC.

On May 10th, 2009 she was appointed Minister for International Relations and Cooperation by the new President Jacob Zuma and thus Foreign Minister of South Africa as the successor to former Ms. Zumas, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma , who took over the office of Minister of the Interior. In September 2009 she was Chair of the Council of Ministers of the South African Development Community (SADC) at the community meeting in Kinshasa , and in 2011 she was President of the UN Climate Change Conference in Durban . In 2014 she was reappointed to the cabinet as Foreign Minister. In 2018 she received the post of Minister of Rural Development and Land Reform in the Ramaphosa I cabinet (for example: "Minister for Rural Development and Land Reform"). In May 2019, she became Minister of Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities in the Presidency in the Ramaphosa II cabinet (for example: "Minister for Women, Youth and Disabled People at the President").

Nkoana-Mashabane was married to former diplomat Norman Mashabane for two weeks. He died in a traffic accident in 2007.

Web links

Commons : Maite Nkoana-Mashabane  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (English; archive version)
• Information in rulers.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maite Nkoana-Mashabane in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
2. ^ Minister Maite Nkoana Mashabane to chair Southern African Development Community (SADC) Council of Ministers in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo
3. ^ Cabinet list of May 25, 2014 ( Memento of January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 17, 2016
4. ^ Controversial former ambassador to Indonesia killed in car accident. The Sowetan, October 12, 2007, accessed February 22, 2015