Siyabonga Cwele

Siyabonga Cwele, 2018

Siyabonga Cyprian Cwele (born September 3, 1957 ) is a South African politician of the African National Congress (ANC). He served as minister from 2008 to 2019.

Life

After attending school, Cwele first completed a degree in health policy at the University of Natal , which he completed in 1984 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBchB). He completed another postgraduate course in economic policy at the University of Stellenbosch with a Master of Philosophy in Economic Policy (MPhil). Cwele completed another postgraduate course in pediatrics at an institution of the Colleges of Medicine of South Africa .

From 1984 to 1989 he worked as a doctor at public health facilities in Edendale and Port Shepstone . Since 1989 he has worked as a private practicing doctor.

After he had been active in underground movements of the ANC between 1984 and 1990 and also on the board of the National Medical and Dental Association (NAMDA), he became a member of the ANC Executive Committee of the Natal Province in 1990 , later KwaZulu-Natal .

At the same time he was elected member of the National Assembly for the first time in 1994 as a candidate for the ANC and has been a member of it ever since.

At the National Council of Provinces , he was Chairman of the Social Services Committee (responsible for health, social development and home affairs). In the National Assembly, Cwele was a member of the Health Portfolio Committee , the Communications Committee and the Budget Committee .

From 1999 he was a member of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence (JSCI), an intelligence control body of the Republic of South Africa. Chairman of this committee was Cwele in 2002. On 25 September 2008 he was appointed to the start of the government of President Kgalema Motlanthe as Minister of Intelligence ( Minister for Intelligence , September 25 2008 to May 10, 2009). This department was renamed the Ministry of State Security in 2009 . Gladys Sonto Kudjoe, who was General Director of the State Security Agency until 2016, represented his ministerial representative .

Cwele was after the election of Jacob Zuma as the new President of the Republic of South Africa from this to the Minister on May 10, 2009 for state security ( Minister of State Security , May 11th 2009 to 25 May 2014) in the Cabinet Zuma I appointed. In the Zuma II cabinet , which has been in office from 2014 , he was Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services , as well as in the Ramaphosa I cabinet under President Cyril Ramaphosa, which has been in office since 2018 . Since November 2018 he served as Minister of the Interior ( Minister of Home Affairs , November 22, 2018 to May 25, 2019). It was no longer taken into account when the Ramaphosa II cabinet was formed in May 2019.

Siyabonga Cwele had been married to Sheryl Cwele since 1985. The marriage had four children. The couple had been separated since 2000 and divorced on August 23, 2011.

Web links

• Entry in Who's Who in South Africa (English; archive version from 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Government of South Africa: Siyabonga Cyprian Cwele, Dr . on www.gov.za (English)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Broadband Commission for Digital Development: HE Dr Siyabonga Cyprian CWELE . at www.broadbandcommission.org (English)
3. ^ ^{A b c} Republic of South Africa: Department of Telecommunications & Postal Services: Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services ( Memento of November 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). on www.dtps.gov.za (English)
4. ↑ Republic of South Africa: Department of State Security: Contact information . on www.gov.za ( Memento from July 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
5. ↑ Siyabonga Cwele to replace Gigaba as home affairs minister . In: Businesslive.co.za . November 22, 2018. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
6. ↑ Sapa: Cwele divorces drug-trafficking wife . News from September 15, 2011 on www.iol.co.za (English)