Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, Ms |
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Personal |
- Date of Birth: 29 June 1952
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Positions last Held |
- Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic of South Africa since 29 April 2004.
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Academic Qualifications |
- Primary and Secondary Education - Magogo and Fairview Schools and Inanda
Seminary in Durban respectively.
- Studied at Natal and Fort Hare Universities.
- Obtained a Diploma in Medical Technology (1979).
- Obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Adult Education (1989).
- Obtained a degree in Social Science, majoring in Philosophy and Sociology (1994).
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Career/Positions/Memberships/Other Activities |
- Worked for six years as a medical Laboratory Technologist.
- In the height of the struggle resigned to work as a full-time organiser for
the Natal Organisation of Women (NOW) for three years.
- Worked as researcher at the Centre for Social and Development Studies and at
the Centre for Adult Education at the University of Natal.
- Joined the underground structures of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1979.
- Chairperson of the Natal Organisation of Women.
- Joined the South African Communist Party (SACP) (1984).
- Served as Regional Chairperson of the SACP and was later elected to its
Central Committee.
- Served on the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the Women's National
Coalition.
- Was a delegate at CODESA and worked as a Managing Secretary for the
Transitional Executive Council (TEC) Sub-Council on the Status of Women.
- Served on the Reconstruction and Development Pogramme (RDP) Task Team to draft policy on the Empowerment of Women.
- Member of Parliament for the ANC and activist for women's rights and peace.
- Served on the Portfolio Committee on Land Affairs and the Parliamentary Committee
on the Improvement of the Quality of Life and Status of Women.
- Chairperson of the Multi-Party Parliamentary Women's Group.
- Chairperson of the ANC Parliamentary Women's Caucus.
- Second Vice-President of the Co-ordinating Committee of Women
Parliamentarians, a body affiliated to the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
- Serves on a number of organisations, including WOW, a network of
local women leaders.
- Deputy Minister of Defence of the Republic of South Africa (17 June 1999 - 28 April 2004).
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Awards/Decorations |
- Recipient of the Peacemakers in Action Award, awarded by the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding (New York) (2002).
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Research and Publications |
- Published articles and papers for newspapers, magazines and journals, such as Work in Progress and Speak.
- Has published easy readers for newly literate adults.
- Published manual for caregivers of elderly people.
- Co-authored a chapter on South African Feminism for a book on global feminism published in 1995.
- Co-authored South Africa's report to the United Nations (UN) for the 4th World conference on Women in Beijing (1995).
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| Source: Deputy Ministry of Health |
