Former minister

Personal

• Date of Birth: 24 August 1960.
• Marital Status: Married
• Other: - Member of Ukukhanya, a non profit community based organisation that aims to rehabilitate offenders and prevention of recidivism. - Assist with the prevention of crime by conducting various programmes, including youth and family programmes. - Member of vavasati stokvel - Working for water programme

Positions last held in government

• Minister for Public Service and Administration of the Republic of South Africa from 17 June 1999 until 25 September 2008.
• Member of Parliament from 1994 until 25 September 2008.
• Member of the Management Board of the Commonwealth Association of Public Administration and Management (CAPAM).
• Represents South Africa on the Executive Committee and Governing Board of the African Training and Research Centre in Administration (CAFRAD).
• Vice-President for Africa of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS) since 2004.
• Chairperson of the 4th and 5th All Africa Conference of Public / Civil Service Ministers since 2005.
• President of Management Board of the Commonwealth Association of Public Administration and Management (CAPAM) since 2006.
• Focal Point of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) since 2006.
• Deputy Chair of the United Nations Commitee of Experts on Public Administration since 2006.
• Patron of the Free and Open Source Software for Africa (FOSSFA) since 2007.
• Member of the UNDP Africa Group on Capacity Development.
• Board member on UNITAR since 2008.
• Honorary Professor from University of Stellenbosch.

Academic Qualifications

• Matriculated at Livingstone High School, Claremont, Cape Town (1978).
• Studied towards a Diploma in Education at University of the Western Cape (incomplete due to becoming a Political Exile in 1980) (1979-80).
• Attendend a Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) Military Academy (1982 - 1983).
• Attended a specialist military course in Cuba (1989).
• Awarded a fellowship to Harvard University by the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government. Focused studies on policy analysis and investigated aspects of the constitution making (1994).
• Received approval by the University of Pretoria to be admitted to the University for MA on the basis of recognition of prior learning (2003).
• Obtained a Masters degree (Cum Laude) in Public Administration from the University of Pretoria. Thesis Topic: Public Service Reform in South Africa: an overview of selected case studies from 1994-2004, Supervised by Prof. Jerry Kuye (2006).

Career/Positions/Memberships/Other Activities

• Deputy Minister for Welfare and Population Development of the Republic of South Africa (February 1995 - June 1996).
• Minister for Welfare and Population Development of the Republic of South Africa (June 1996 - 16 June 1999).
• Chairperson of the Sub-committee on Rules of the National Assembly of the Parliament of South Africa.
• Gained extensive experience in Public Administration in all its facets, policy formulation and implementation in a range of settings.
• Chairperson of the IIAS Working Group on "Administration Global Governance" and Rapporteur-General of the IIAS second Specialised International Conference, held in New Delhi, India. 5 - 9 November 2002, which dealt with theme "Towards quality Governance for Sustainable Growth and Development.
• Served on the Management Committee at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) as technical support to General Secretary of the SACP (1990-1994).
• Chairperson of the Innovation Committee of CAPAM (Singapore Biennial)(2004).
• Chairperson of the IIAS Working Group on "Administering Global Governace" (2004 - 2005).

Positions last held/Career/Memberships/Other Activities

• Order of the Crazy Horse Award of the American Indian population for service and leadership.
• Award by the University of Pretoria, School of Public Management and Administraion in the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences for contribution to Public Administration and Development in South Africa (2003).
• Awarded Top Business Woman (2005 and 2007).
• Honorary Professor of Stellenbosch University since 2006.
• Awarded BBQ (2006).
• Awarded Alumni(2007).

Research/Presentations/Awards/Decorations/Bursaries and Publications

• The world we could win: Administering global governance Volume 27 International Institute of Administration Sciences. Brussels, Belgium. 2005. ISBN 1-58603-547-9.
• Challenges for the South African Public Service in the Context of the New African Initiative, Manion Public Lecture, CCMD, Canada. 2002.
• Monitoring and Evaluation and the Development Challenge in Southern Africa in Development Bank of Southern African Development, Monitoring and Evaluation Capacity Development in South Africa. DBSA, Midrand. 2002.
• Organisational Learning: An Imperative for the Transformation of the South African Public Service. Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 40, No. 40. December 1, 2005.
• The interaction between Governance, Policy and Public Service Reform in Democratic South Africa in Oluwu D. and R. Mukwena, (Eds.). Governance in Southern Africa and beyond: Experiences of Institutional and Public Policy Reform in Developing Countries. Gamsberg Macmillan Publishers, Windhoek, Namibia. 2004. pp. 45-60.