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Minister in The Presidency

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• Date of Birth: 9 October 1940
• Marital Status: Married

Current Positions

• Minister of The Presidency of the Republic of South Africa since 25 September 2008.
• Member of Parliament since 1994.
• Member of African National Congress (ANC) National Executive Council (NEC).
• Member of National Working Committee (NWC).
• Member of ANC Women's League National Executive Council.
• Chairperson of the Social Sector Cluster of South African Cabinet Committee.

Academic Qualifications

• Matriculated from Inanda Seminary (1959).
• BA degree from University of Fort Hare (1961).
• Medical degree from First Leningrad Medical Institute in Union of Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR) (1969).
• Diploma in Obsterics and Gynaecology from University of Dar es Salaam Medical School in Tanzania (1972).
• Masters degree in Public Health from University of Antwerp, Belgium (1980).
• Attended a course in Health Care Systems Planning, Financing and Management for sixteen weeks from University of Sussex in United Kingdom (UK) (1990).
• Attended a course in Improving the Management of Primary Health Care Services for three weeks Medex course from University of Hawaii (1991).
• Attended a course in Public Administration for six weeks from Civil Service College, Sunningdale in UK (1992).

Career/Positions/Memberships/Other Activities

• Registrar, Obsterics and Gynaecology at Muhumbili Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
• Medical Superintendent responsible for 10 satellite clinics at the Lobatse Hospital in Botswana.
• Head of Health Training Programme for National Liberation Movements, Organisation of African Unity / United Nations Development Programme at Morogoro in Tanzania (1976 - 1979).
• Deputy Secretary in charge of human resource development and deployment for the African National Congress (ANC), Department of Health, Tanzania/ Zambia (1979 - 1990).
• Convened the First International Conference on Health and apartheid under the auspices of World Health Organisation (1980).
• Held several positions in the National Progressive Primary Health Care Network, Durban (1991 - 1994).
• National Executive, ANC children in Tanzania (1981).
• Co-ordinator of the ANC's Health Plan (Section on Women's Health) (1991 - 1994).
• Conducted research in various fields including a Survey on nutritional status of ANC children in Tanzania (1981), Study of prevalence of chloroquinine-resistant malaria within the ANC communities in Angola, Mozambique and Tanzania (1983), Mental Health Survey within the ANC communities in Angola, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia (1986) and Evaluation of Ghandi Settlement Clinic in Durban (1990).
• Former Chairperson of the Portfolio Committee on Health, National Assembly (1994 - June 1996).
• Member of the Africa and Middle East Regions Steering Committee of Parliamentarians for Population and Development (since 1994).
• Deputy Minister of Justice of the Republic South Africa (July 1996 - June 1999).
• Former member of the Board of the Global Fund to fight HIV and AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis representing the Eastern and Southern Africa Constituency.
• Former Chair of Non-Aligned Movement of Health Ministers.
• Former Chairperson of SADC Health Sectoral Committee of Ministers.
• Former Chairperson of the WHO Afro Regional Commitee of Health Ministers.
• Former Vice-President of the 57th World Health Assembly.
• Minister of Health of the Republic of South Africa from 17 June 1999 to 25 September 2008.

Research and Publications

• National Directory of Community-Based Health Workers (1992).
• Directory of Community-Based Women's Organisations in Natal (1993).
• ANC Women's League submission to the Ad-Hoc Select Committee on Abortion and Sterilization (Act No. 2 of 1975).

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