Thuthukile Skweyiya

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Thuthukile Edy Skweyiya , also Thuthukile Mazibuko-Skweyiya, is a former South African diplomat and currently chairwoman of the supervisory board ("Chair") of the state armaments company Armscor .

Life

Thuthukile Skweyiya worked since 1995 for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South Africa (Foreign Affairs). There she became the first female Deputy Director General (DDG) to maintain relations with Asia and the Middle East. From May 18, 1999 to 2004, she was the South African ambassador to France and, at the same time, the permanent representative of the South African government to UNESCO . In 2001, she established the Thuthukile Skweyiya Western Cape-Burgundy Wine Exchange Program, an exchange program with the French wine region of Burgundy , which promotes viticulture in the Western Cape Province .

In 2004 she resigned from government service. She has served on the supervisory boards of various companies, including as Chairperson at Wesizwe Platinum Ltd, Afrikander Lease Ltd and Aflease Gold and Uranium Resources of South Africa (now Uranium One ) and as a board member at Wescoal Holdings Ltd, TOSACO, Total, Boschendal and Sphere.

As deputy of the Armscor chairman Refiloe Johannes Mudimu , after he had resigned due to illness, she initially took over temporarily from October 2018 and officially succeeded him from April 2019.

Skweyiya is fluent in Zulu , English and German, as well as Afrikaans and French.

She was the second wife of the South African politician Zola Skweyiya (1942-2018). He served as Minister in the Mandela , Mbeki I , Mbeki II and Motlanthe Cabinets from 1994 to 2009 and served as South African High Commissioner in the UK from 2009 to 2014 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Former ambassador Skweyiya is new Armscor chair
  2. ^ Burgundy Wine Exchange Program celebrates its tenth birthday at Elsenburg
  3. ↑ Thuthukile Edy Skweyiya at Bloomberg
  4. ↑ a b Thuthukile Edy Skweyiya in the Isanqa team
  5. ↑ Zola Skweyiya. Powerful voice behind the scenes in: Sunday Times , April 15, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Skweyiya, Thuthukile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skweyiya, Thuthukile Edy; Mazibuko-Skweyiya, Thuthukile; Skweyiya, Thutukile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African diplomat and Chairwoman of Armscor's Board of Directors
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century