Nomaindia Mfeketo

Nomaindia C. Mfeketo (born June 2, 1952 in Cape Town ) is a South African politician , former deputy parliamentary speaker and former mayor of Cape Town . From 2018 to 2019 she was a member of the Ramaphosa I cabinet as Minister for Settlement Policy .

Life

Mfeketo was born in the Cape Town suburb of Elsie's River . Her family was relocated to a township under the Promotion of Bantu Self-Government Act . This experience politicized her early on and she joined the African National Congress Women's League and later the African National Congress (ANC). From 1981 to 1991 she worked for the non-governmental organization (NGO) Zakhe , where she was responsible for the education and training of young people and women. During this time she organized a protest for the rights of blacks, especially the right to live in Cape Town. As a result, she was arrested several times ; she was refused entry to the funeral of her son, who was killed in a car accident.

Until 1996 she worked in other NGOs before she was elected to the City Council of Cape Town. She won the mayoral elections in 1998 and became the city's first black woman mayor; she remained in office until 2000. In 2002 Mfeketo was re-elected as the successor to Gerald Morkel as mayor of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality and remained so until 2006; her successor was Helen Zille . She then worked as a consultant to Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma . In 2008 she was elected to the South African National Assembly, from 2009 she was the deputy speaker of the chamber. Mfeketo is a member of the National Executive Committee and the ANC Working Committee. In 2018 she became Minister of Human Settlements , but was no longer taken into account when the cabinet was reorganized in 2019 .

Awards

• Honorary Doctorate in Law from the University of Cape Town (2000)
• Local Government Management of South Africa Award 2003

Web links

• Profile of Mfeketo in Who's Who South Africa (English; archive version from 2018)
• Profile of Mfeketo on the pages of the South African Parliament
• Profile of Mfeketo in the Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nomaindia Mfeketo. Activist, former mayor of Cape Town . In: Karina Turok, Margie Orford: Life and Soul: Portraits of Women Who Move South Africa . Juta and Company Ltd 2006. ISBN 978-1770130432 . P. 46
2. ↑ Edgar Pieterse (Ed.): Counter Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Town Region . Jacana 2010. ISBN 978-1770097957 . P. 32.
3. ↑ The National Executive Committee ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 5, 2012. 
4. ↑ The National Working Committee ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 5, 2012. 
5. ^ Troye Lund: Chaos reigns in Cape Town mayor's office . In: Independent Online of January 28, 2000, accessed August 5, 2012.