About Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu, Her Career And Personal Life
ABOUT LINDIWE NONCEBA SISULU
Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu is a well known south africa politician born on 10th of May, 1954. From April 1994 to March 2023, she served as the African National Congress (ANC) representative in the South African National Assembly. She was a minister in the administration under four presidents in a row from 2001 to 2023. She resigned from the National Assembly in March 2023 after President Cyril Ramaphosa removed her from his administration.
LINDIWE NONCEBA SISULU’S CAREER
She a daughter of popular Independence leaders Albertina and Walter Sisulu. Sisulu went to boarding college in nearby Swaziland after being born in Johannesburg. Sisulu finished her high school education outside of South Africa at St. Michael’s School and Waterford Kamhlaba in neighboring Swaziland, where she had attended boarding college since she was a little child. Her higher level Cambridge General Certificate of Education was awarded to her in 1973. Her goal was to study law in Britain while studying Latin in college, but she was refused a passport. Rather, she enrolled at the University of Swaziland to pursue a degree in politics and history. To her mother’s dismay, she developed a passion in Black Consciousness politics during this time. She left South Africa at the age of 23 and joined Umkhonto we Sizwe in exile after enduring protracted imprisonment without charge or trial from the year 1976 to 1977. Before returning to South Africa in 1990 to take part in the negotiations to end apartheid, she spent the majority of her life in Swaziland and England. She was elected to the National Assembly in South Africa’s first post-apartheid elections, and she later chaired the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence in Parliament. From the year 1996 to 2001, she was the Deputy Minister of Home Affairs in Nelson Mandela’s administration of National Unity.
Sisulu held the positions of Minister of Intelligence under President Thabo Mbeki from 2001 to 2004 and Minister of Housing from 2004 to 2009. She also held the positions of Minister of Human Settlements (a return to her previous role) from 2014 to 2018, Minister of Public Service and Administration from 2012 to 2014, and Minister of Defence and Military Veterans from 2009 to 2012 under President Jacob Zuma. Her term as Minister of International Relations and Cooperation was brief, since President Ramaphosa promoted her to the freshly established office of Minister of Human Settlements, Water and Sanitation following the 2019 general election. Eventually, she was downgraded to Minister of Tourism during a cabinet rearrangement in August 2021, which was her final role in the administration.
She had a younger sister named Nonkululeko and three older brothers (Max, Mlungisi, and Zwelakhe). Their parents names were Walter and Albertina Sisulu. They were well-known opponents of racism. In the year 1953, Walter served as the African National Congress’s (ANC) secretary-general until being found guilty in the Rivonia Trial and given a life sentence. As a result, Sisulu wrote her father letters throughout her early years. She told him that she wanted to be “the first African woman in space” and he urged her to do so following the first lunar landing.
Sisulu was chosen to represent the African National Congress (ANC) in the National Assembly, the lower house of the newly formed South African Parliament, during the country’s first post-apartheid elections in April 1994. She was chosen to serve as the committee’s chair after the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence was established under the Intelligence Control Act in 1995. But in June 1996, after serving as the chair of the committee for at least a year, Sisulu received a promotion to the post of Deputy Minister of Home Affairs in President Nelson Mandela’s Government of National Unity. The leader of the opposition Inkatha Freedom Party, Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi, was finally replaced by her in that role, which she governed from June 1996 until January 2001. During her service as Deputy Minister, Sisulu participated in the ANC’s 50th National Conference in Mafikeng in December 1997, where she was elected to the National Executive Committee for the first time.
LINDIWE NONCEBA SISULU’S RELATIONSHIP STATUS
Xolile Guma, who is an economist from South Africa, was Sisulu’s first husband. They got married in exile. In December 1975, they gave birth to their first child together outside of marriage. Following their divorce, she got married again, this time around to Kenyan scholar Rok Ajulu, with whom she had kids until he passed away in December 2016 from pancreatic cancer. Sisulu claimed that she have received cancer treatment in 2022.
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