Pallo Jordan

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Pallo Jordan (2005)

Zweledinga Pallo Jordan (born May 22, 1942 in Kroonstad ) is a former South African politician ( African National Congress , ANC) and anti- apartheid activist. Between 1994 and 2009 he headed three ministries in succession.

Life

Pallo Jordan was born as the son of the university teacher and writer Archibald Campbell Jordan and the university professor Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan. Like his parents, he worked in the Non European Unity Movement before moving to the ANC.

During the apartheid period he went into exile in 1962 and studied in the USA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison , where he had to leave the country because of his participation in anti- Vietnam war demonstrations, and briefly in Great Britain at the London School of Economics . From 1975 he worked in the ANC office in London. In 1977 he moved to Angola , where he headed the subsidiary of the ANC broadcaster Radio Freedom . In the same year he wrote a curriculum for the political instruction of fighters of the Umkhonto we Sizwe . In 1979 he was the director of the first ANC internal propaganda campaign commemorating the Battle of Isandhlwana in 1879. In 1980 he headed the Research Unit of the Department of Information and Publicity of the ANC in Lusaka . In 1982 he was injured in a bomb attack by the apartheid regime at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo , and lecturer Ruth First was killed.

In 1985, Jordan was elected to the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC) at the Kabwe Conference . From 1985 to 1989 he was Chairman of the Strategy and Tactics Commission , and in 1989 - as Thabo Mbeki's successor - also Director of Information and Publicity . In 1987 he took part in a secret conference with representatives of the then South African government and representatives of the ANC in Dakar , and in 1989 at the follow-up conference in Paris. In June 1990 he returned to his home country after the ban against the ANC was lifted . He took part in the talks on democratization, CODESA , for the ANC . At the time, in a widely acclaimed paper, he turned against communism , as represented by the South African Communist Party , for example its chairman at the time, Joe Slovo .

In the first free elections in 1994 he was given a seat in parliament and was appointed Minister of Post, Telecommunications and Broadcasting in the Mandela cabinet ; In 1996 he moved to the department for environmental affairs and tourism. 1999 to 2004 he was a deputy of the National Assembly 's Committee on Foreign Affairs ( Foreign Affairs Committee before). Thabo Mbeki appointed him to his cabinet as Minister for Art and Culture in 2004 ; he also held this office in the Motlanthe cabinet until 2009. On August 11, 2014, he had to admit that, contrary to his statements, he had not received his doctorate , so he resigned his mandate and left the NEC.

Jordan was married to the American Carlyn Roth until the divorce; they have a daughter together.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f portrait at sahistory.org.za (English), accessed on August 22, 2017
  2. ^ Pallo Jordan: why I did it. news24.com from August 24, 2014, accessed on August 23, 2017
  3. ↑ Ruth First at mozambiquehistory.net (English), accessed on August 23, 2017
  4. ↑ Jordan's reply to a writing by Joe Slovo at nelsonmandela.org, accessed on August 23, 2017
  5. ↑ a b South African election: front runners line up for posts in new cabinet. The Independent , accessed August 23, 2017
  6. ^ South African ANC MP Pallo Jordan resigns over fake degree. (English), accessed on August 22, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Jordan, Pallo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jordan, Zweledinga Pallo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Kroonstad