Smangaliso Mkhatshwa

Smangaliso Mkhatshwa (born June 26, 1939 in Barberton, Mpumalanga Province , South Africa ) is a South African priest and politician. From 2000 to 2006 he was Executive Mayor of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality . Mkhatswhwa is a member of the African National Congress (ANC).

Mkhatshwa graduated from Polokwane (formerly Pietersburg). He then studied philosophy (Bachelor) and theology (Master) at the University of Leuven in Belgium and was trained as a Catholic priest in KwaZulu-Natal and at St Peter's Seminary in Tshwane. As an active opponent of the apartheid regime in South Africa, he was politically persecuted, arrested and tortured.

Mkhatshwa was General Secretary of the Catholic Bishops' Conference for Southern Africa in the 1980s and then General Secretary of the Institute for Contextual Theology in Johannesburg. In 1988 he received an honorary doctorate from the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen .

Mkhatshwa has been a member of the ANC, the leading South African party, since the ban was ended. In 1994 he became a member of the South African Parliament for the ANC. From 1994 to 1996 he was a committee chairman in the National Assembly. In 1996 he was appointed Minister of Education of South Africa; he held this post until 1999. In 2000 he was elected Mayor of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality . He held this position until March 2006.

Mkhatshwa is the first President of the United Cities and Local Governments of Africa , the umbrella organization of African cities and regional governments, which was founded in December 2003 in Yaoundé , Cameroon and is dedicated - with limited influence - to the economic and political development of Africa at the local level.

Web links

Homepage of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (English)
Homepage of the ANC, with picture (English)

Individual evidence

↑ Smangaliso Mkhatshwa: Speech at the award of the honorary doctorate of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen on November 30, 1988 . In: Young Church . tape 50 , no. 3 , 1989, pp. 171-176 .

personal data
SURNAME	Mkhatshwa, Smangaliso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	South African priest and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	June 26, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH	Barberton, Mpumalanga Province , South Africa

[1] Smangaliso Mkhatshwa: Speech at the award of the honorary doctorate of the Catholic Theological Faculty of the University of Tübingen on November 30, 1988 . In: Young Church . tape 50 , no. 3 , 1989, pp. 171-176 .