Naledi Pandor

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Naledi Pandor (2012)

Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor (born December 7, 1953 in Durban ) is a South African politician . She is a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and has been Foreign Minister in the Ramaphosa II cabinet since May 2019 . From 1999 to 2004 she was a member of the National Council of Provinces . Afterwards she was minister in various departments in several cabinets.

Life

Grace Naledi Mandisa Matthews' father was the politician and lawyer Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe "Joe" Matthews, her grandfather the politician, university professor and diplomat Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews . Both were among the defendants in the Treason Trial from 1956 .

Naledi Matthews graduated from Gaborone Secondary School in Gaborone, Botswana, in 1972 .

From 1073 to 1977 she studied in Botswana at the University of Botswana and Swaziland (UBS). There she met Sharif Joseph Pandor, whom she married. She accepted the Islamic faith. She graduated from UBS with a Bachelor of Arts and a Certificate for Continuing Education . In 1978 she obtained a Diploma in Education from the University of London , followed in 1979 by a Master of Arts in Education from the same university. In 1992 she received another diploma in Higher Education, Administration and Leadership in Development in the Bryn Mawr Summer Program and in 1997 another diploma in Leadership in Development from the Kennedy School of Government , which is part of Harvard University . In the same year she obtained another master's degree in linguistics from the University of Stellenbosch . In 2019, she received her PhD in Education as Minister at the University of Pretoria . Her dissertation is entitled The contested meaning of transformation in higher education in post-apartheid South Africa (German for example: “The controversial meaning of the change in higher education in South Africa after apartheid ”).

In 1980 Pandor taught at the Ernst Bevin School in London, and from 1981 to 1984 in Gaborone. She then was a lecturer at the Taung College of Education in what was then Bophuthatswana . From 1986 to 1989 she worked as a senior lecturer for English at the University of Bophuthatswana , and from 1989 to 1994 as a senior lecturer in the Academic Support Program at the University of Cape Town .

In the 1994 election she was given a seat in the National Assembly . From 1994 to 1995 she was Whip Deputy Chief Whip from 1995 to 1998 . In 1998 she became Deputy Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP). In 1999 she was President Thabo Mbeki as Chairman (Chairperson) appointed the National Council of Provinces, which they board by 2004. In 2002 she was also elected to the ANC's National Executive Committee . In 2004 she joined the Mbeki II cabinet , where she became Minister for Education . She kept this position in the Motlanthe cabinet . From 2009 to 2012 she was in the Zuma I Minister for Science and Technology ; then she became Minister for Home Affairs . In the Zuma II cabinet , which was formed in 2014, she was again Minister for Science and Technology .

Cyril Ramaphosa appointed her Minister for Higher Education and Training in the Ramaphosa I cabinet in 2018 . On May 29, 2019, she finally became Minister for International Relations and Cooperation .

Pandor has been a member of the ANC's National Executive Committee since 2002 . Between 2013 and 2015, Pandor represented Jacob Zuma as President several times.

Pandor has four children with her husband.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Naledi Pandor  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor gov.za (English), accessed on August 18, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c Who is Naledi Pandor? enca.com from November 6, 2017 (English), accessed on August 18, 2019
  3. ^ Text of the dissertation repository.up.ac.za (English), accessed on August 18, 2019
  4. ↑ Naledi Pandor awarded Germany's Grand Cross of Merit. saasta.ac.za from August 2016, accessed on August 18, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Pandor, Naledi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pandor, Grace Naledi Mandisa (full name); Matthews, Grace Naledi Mandisa (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African educationalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 7th December 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Durban