Rob Davies

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Rob Davies (2012)

Robert Haydn Davies , often Rob Davies (born May 12, 1948 ) is a South African politician of the African National Congress (ANC) and Minister for Trade and Industry from May 2009 to May 2019.

Life

After attending school, Davies studied economics at Rhodes University in Grahamstown , graduating in 1969 with a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics. He then completed a postgraduate degree in international relations at the University of Southampton in 1971 with a Master of Social Science in International Relations. He then did his doctorate at the University of Sussex , where he earned a Ph.D. in political science .

Between 1979 and 1990 Davies worked as a political analyst at the Centro de Estudos Africanos of the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo .

During his stay in Mozambique, Davies was temporarily a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP). After his return to South Africa in August 1990, Davies worked in the Department of Economic Policy at the headquarters of the ANC in Johannesburg and became a professor and co-director of the newly founded Center for Southern African Studies (German: "Center for Studies in Southern Africa") belonging to the University of the Western Cape in Belville . He held this position until 1994. He also worked as a research fellow for the South African Development Community (SADC).

Davies began his political career when he was first elected a member of the National Assembly on the list of the African National Congress in 1994 , and has been a member since then. During his long membership in parliament, he was first chairman of the Committee on Trade and Industry from 1996 to 2004 and then chairman of the finance committee between 2004 and 2005.

In 2005 he became Vice Minister in the Ministry of Trade and Industry and thus the closest collaborator of the then Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa . After Jacob Zuma was elected as the new President of South Africa , Davies was appointed Minister for Trade and Industry in Zuma I's cabinet on May 10, 2009 as Mpahlwa's successor . In his political-administrative work in this department, he was supported by the two ministerial deputies Thandi Tobias and Maria Ntuli. After the 2014 elections , he kept his ministerial post as well as in the Ramaphosa I cabinet formed in 2018 . He is no longer a member of the Ramaphosa II cabinet, which was formed in 2019 .

Publications (selection)

  • The white working class in South Africa . In: New Left Review, 82 (1973), pp. 40-59
  • Capital, State, and white labor in South Africa, 1900-1960: an historical materialist analysis of class formation and class relations . Atlantic Highlands, NJ, Humanities Press, 1979
  • The struggle for South Africa: a reference guide to movements, organizations, and institutions . London, Zed Books, 1985 (co-authors: Dan O'Meara, Sipho Dlamini)
  • South African strategy towards Mozambique in the post-Nkomati period: a critical analysis of effects and implications . Uppsala, Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, 1985
  • The Kingdom of Swaziland: a profile . London, Zed Books, 1985 (co-authors: Dan O'Meara, Sipho Dlamini)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c ANC Parliamentary Caucus 2011: Davies, Robert Haydn (Minister) . on www.anc.org.za ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.anc.org.za
  2. ↑ Short biography at the World Economic Forum. on www.weforum.org ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.weforum.org
  3. ^ Republic of South Africa. Department of Trade and Industry: Minister Rob Davies, Dr . on www.thedti.gov.za (English)
  4. ↑ Colleen Lowe Morna: Hopes and fears . In: New African, April 1990. online at www.mozambiquehistory.net (English)
  5. ↑ Cabinet list from May 25, 2014 ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed January 17, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / citizen.co.za
personal data
SURNAME Davies, Rob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davies, Robert Haydn (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1948