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Summary
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¶1. (SBU) President Jacob Zuma finalized his Cabinet
appointments on May 10, modifying several existing ministries
and creating a few new ones. Below are short biographies for
each of the newly appointed ministers and deputies. This is
the third of three cables looking at each of the Cabinet
appointees. End Summary.
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Cabinet Appointees
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¶2. (U) Public Enterprises Minister Barbara Hogan served as
Health Minister under former President Kgalema Motlanthe.
Credited with changing the culture of the health ministry,
Hogan also caused controversy when she spoke out without
consulting the African National Congress (ANC) on the
government's decision not to grant the Dalai Lama a visa.
She previously served as a member of Parliament, where she
played a leading role in numerous ad hoc committees and
investigations. She chaired the portfolio committee on
Finance from 1999 to 2004. She was instrumental in creating
ANC structures in Gauteng and has been a member of Parliament
since 1994. Concurrent with her appointment to the Health
Ministry, Hogan acts as chairperson of the Standing Committee
on the Auditor General. She is a member of the advisory
board of the Amandla AIDS Fund, which was established by the
non-profit organization Artists for a New South Africa in
¶2003. She joined the ANC in 1976 after the Soweto student
uprising. In 1982, she became the first woman to be
sentenced to treason in South Africa and began serving a
10-year sentence. She was released in 1990. Hogan was born
in 1952 and enjoys reading.
¶3. (U) Deputy Public Enterprises Minister Enoch Godongwana
had been rumored to be a frontrunner for the Deputy Finance
Minister position, but did not receive the job when the SACP
opposed the move. Godongwana advanced politically through
the Eastern Cape provincial legislature -- which raises
questions about his effectiveness because the province is
widely seen as the most impoverished in the country. He
served as a Minister in the Executive (MEC) for Finance in
Eastern Cape in 2004 and served as an MEC for the Provincial
Treasury, Economic Affairs, and Environment and Tourism from
1998 to 2004. Before 1994, Godongwana was National Secretary
and Regional Secretary for the National Union of South
African Mines, working his way up the union beginning in
¶1989. He holds a degree from the University of London and
was born in 1957 in Eastern Cape.
¶4. (U) Public Services and Administration Minister Richard
Baloyi has been a member of Parliament since 1999 and began
serving in his current capacity under Motlanthe. A competent
leader, Baloyi began his political career in the United
Democratic Front and rose through the Limpopo legislature.
He served as secretary of the ANC's Giyani branch and as
secretary of the ANC's Northeast sub-region. In the 1990s,
he was a member of the ANC's Limpopo Provincial Executive
Committee and was the ANC's provincial spokesperson.
¶5. (U) Deputy Public Services and Administration Minister
Roy Padayachie served as Deputy Minister of Communications
from 2004 to 2009 and has a history of political involvement
in KwaZulu Natal. He joined the ANC in 1972 and later became
a United Democratic Front executive committee member and as a
Qa United Democratic Front executive committee member and as a
member of the ANC's KwaZulu Natal negotiating team at the
Congress for a Democratic South Africa discussions.
Professionally, Padayachie served as a formulations chemist
at Plascon Evans Paints from 1974 to 1979, as a
microbiologist at Reckitt and Colman from 1976 to 1979, and
as a research chemist at Shell Chemical from 1979 to 1980.
Before his appointment as a deputy minister, Padayachie was a
consultant to small, medium, and micro enterprises on
business development. He was educated at the University of
Durban-Westville and the University of London. He was born
in 1950.
¶6. (U) Public Works Minister Geoffrey Doidge has extensive
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legislative experience. In addition to being Public Works
Minister, Doidge is chairman of the Committee of Chairpersons
in Parliament, a member of the National Assembly Rules
Committee, a member of the Joint Rules Committee, a member of
the National Assembly Program Committee, a member of the
Joint Program Committee, a member of Parliament's Budget
Forum, a member of the ANC Whips Committee since 1994, and a
member of the ANC Governance Committee in Parliament. He has
extensive experience in development work and local
governance. He was a founding member of the ANC's Strategy
Team as served as Deputy Chief Whip of the ANC from 1994 to
¶1999. His local government experience includes times as a
member of the ANC Transkei regional executive from 1992-1995
and as a member of the Kokstad Local Affairs committee from
1992 to 1994. He is known for protecting staff members from
abuse by fellow legislators. He was born on April 26, 1952
and is married.
¶7. (U) Deputy Public Works Minister Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu
is a motivational speaker, researcher, writer, and
consultant. Visually impaired, Bogopane-Zulu has overcome
enormous odds in her rise as a national figure and
effectively used her sway within South Africa's community of
citizens with disabilities to further union efforts.
Bogopane-Zulu has been in Parliament since 1999 and served on
the Portfolio Committee for Social Development beginning in
¶1999. She currently is the national trainer for "Public
Service South Africa." During her parliamentary career, she
also has served as National Public Prosecutor, National
Public Protector, and National Auditor General. Before her
deployment to Parliament, Bogopane-Zulu was the National
Coordinator for Disabled People South Africa from 1996 to
1999 and National Coordinator for Disabled Women's
Development Program from 1996 to 1999. She was involved in
efforts to negotiate the convention on the rights and dignity
of disabled people at the United Nations. Bogopane-Zulu is
married with three children.
¶8. (U) Rural Development and Land Affairs Minister Gugile
Nkwinti has long been involved in Eastern Cape politics.
Farmers are thrilled that Zuma has created two ministries
devoted to agriculture -- one headed by Joemat-Peterson and
this ministry headed by Nkwinti. He is said to "understand
commercial farming very well." Nkwinti served as an MEC for
Local Government and Housing from 2004 until recently and was
an MEC for Housing, Local Government, and Traditional Affairs
from 1999 to 2004. From 1994 to 1999, he was speaker of the
Eastern Cape legislature. He began his political career in
the 1980s, serving as a regional executive committee member
for the United Democratic Front -- he rose to the level of
National Convener -- and later as a regional treasurer for
the movement before using his connections to rise in the ANC.
In 1990, he was the regional secretary for the ANC in
Eastern Cape. He was born 1948, received a Bachelors degree
from the University of South Africa, and enjoys reading.
¶9. (U) Deputy Rural Development and Land Affairs Minister
Joe Phaahla rose to prominence as a student through the
Azanian People's Organization. He previously served as Chief
Executive Officer of the South African Sports Commission. In
QExecutive Officer of the South African Sports Commission. In
the Sports Commission office, Phaahla had a key role as
Director General of South Africa's 2010 bid and advised both
Mbeki and Motlanthe on the country's preparations for the
World Cup. He has longstanding ties to the ANC's Limpopo
provincial structures. Phaala challenged former Limpopo
premier Ngoako Ramatlhodi for control of the province in 2005
and was quickly deployed for politically attacking one of
Mbeki's chief allies. Many see Phaala's ministerial
appointment as a way to reward him for supporting Zuma at the
2007 ruling party congress.
¶10. (U) Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor
previously was Minister of Education from 2004 to 2009. From
1999 to 2004, she was chair of the National Council of
Provinces. She has been a member of Parliament since 1994
and served as Deputy Chief Whip for the ANC at one point
during the 1990s. She has a lengthy track record of
positions and leadership roles involving the issue of
education. She rose through the Taung College of Education's
English Department throughout the 1980s and worked at the
University of Cape Town in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
She was executive director of the Desmond Tutu Educational
Trust from 1993 to 1994 and was Chancellor of the Cape
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Techikon in 2000. She holds degrees from the University of
Stellenbosch, the University of Botswana, and the University
of London. She is married. Pandor was born in 1953.
¶11. (U) Deputy Science and Technology Minister Derek Hanekom
has held this position since 2004. He has been an ANC member
of Parliament since 1999 and served as Minister of
Agriculture and Land Affairs from 1994 to 1999. He is a
member of the ANC's National Executive Committee and a Board
Director for the Land and Agricultural Policy Centre. He
served in the South African military in the 1970s and then
worked as a businessman. He was first arrested during a
candlelight vigil at John Vorster Square Police Headquarters
in Johannesburg in 1976 and then arrested again in 1983, for
which he spent nine months in jail for high treason. From
1990 to 1994, Hanekom worked as a coordinator for the ANC's
Land and Agricultural desk. He was born in 1953 in Cape Town
and is married.
¶12. (U) Social Development Minister Edna Molewa has long
been active in Northwest ANC politics. From 2004 to 2009,
she served as the province's premier. She has been a member
of the ANC Women's League in the Northwest since 2003 and,
until recently, was the chair of the Women's League in the
province. She has been a member of the province's ANC
national executive committee since 1996. She was first
deployed to Parliament in 1994 and served there until 1996 --
she was the first woman chair of the Portfolio Committee on
Trade and Industry. She was a teacher in the 1970s before
going underground to work for the ANC during the 1980s. She
later chaired a branch of the South African Commercial,
Catering, and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) and rose to
become the Deputy of SACCAWU. She was born in 1957 and is
married.
¶13. (U) Deputy Social Development Minister Bathabile Dlamini
has served as Secretary General of the ANC Women's League
since 2003 and served as Deputy Secretary General of the
League from 1997 to 2003. She joined the ANC Women's League
Executive Committee in 1991 and "literally grew up in the
organization." She lost a bitter power struggle last year
against new Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga for the
presidency of the ANC Women's League. She was a key reason
why Zuma won support from the women's body ahead of the
ruling party's congress in December 2007. There is not a lot
of information available on Dlamini, but she reportedly
benefited heavily during the "Travelgate" scandal -- where
MPs misused government funds while on official business -- in
the early 2000s and was forced to resign from Parliament.
¶14. (U) Sport and Recreation Minister Makenkesi Stofile has
served in his current capacity since 2004. He has been chair
of the ANC in Eastern Cape since 1996 and a member of the
ANC's National Executive Committee since 1990. He has served
in a number of senior positions within the party, including:
ANC Internal Leadership Core (1990-1991), ANC Regional Chair
(1990-1991), ANC Treasurer General (1995-1997), and Premier
of Eastern Cape (1997-2004). A powerful political figure,
with connections to nearly every single facet of the South
African liberation movement, Stofile played a key role in
helping the SAG win the hosting of the 2010 World Cup and led
Qhelping the SAG win the hosting of the 2010 World Cup and led
successful protests to prevent a tour by the New Zealand
rugby team in 1984. From 1969 to 1994, Stofile was the
province's national sports administrator and he coached
junior rugby and cricket from 1965 to 1994. He has numerous
undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of
Fort Hare and holds a Masters degree from Princeton
University. Stofile was born in 1944, is married, and enjoys
watching sports.
¶15. (U) Deputy Sport and Recreation Minister Gert Oosthuizen
was formerly in the New National Party (NNP) and has served
in his current capacity since 2004. He was self-employed
during the 1980s following a stint in the South African Air
Force. He was first elected to Parliament in 1987 and
remained in the legislature following the 1994 election. He
served as a Whip in Parliament from 1989 to 1999, joining the
ANC in 2000. He served as a member of the ANC's Strategy
Committee in Parliament from 2001 to 2004. He also served on
the Joint Defense Committee, the Portfolio Committee on
Defense, and the Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services
from 2001 to 2004. He was born in 1957 and enjoys watching
sports.
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¶16. (U) State Security Minister Siyabonga Cwele was formerly
Intelligence Minister under the previous ministry alignment.
(Note: The State Security ministry was formerly the
Intelligence ministry. End Note.) Cwele has been a member
of Parliament since 1994. He has served as a member of the
ANC's Provincial Executive Committee in KwaZulu Natal since
¶1990. Throughout his legislative career, he has served on
the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence, as a member of
the Senate of the National Council of Provinces from 1994 to
1999, and as chairman of the Standing Committee on Social
Services. He served in various underground capacities for
the ANC from 1984 to 1990. He was known as one of the few
leaders in Parliament willing to speak out against some of
Mbeki's decisions. He is a strong Zuma supporter, and was
credited with ensuring Mbeki's bid for a third term was
defeated at Polokwane. Cwele, who has a good grasp of the
intelligence system, led the Joint Standing Committee on
Intelligence to recommend that former Scorpions boss Leonard
McCarthy be charged for allowing the Scorpions to gather
intelligence that culminated in the controversial Browse Mole
report. The report linked ANC President Jacob Zuma to a coup
plot against Mbeki. He denied a request in 2008 by the
Consul General in Durban to discuss political developments.
¶17. (U) Tourism Minister Martinus van Schalkwyk has been a
member of Parliament since 1990 and caused controversy when
he merged the NNP with the ANC in the early 2000s. Van
Schalkwyk served as premier of Western Cape from 2002 to 2004
and previously was Minister of Environmental Affairs and
Tourism from 2004 to 2009. Most pundits say he has a better
grasp of South Africa's tourism industry than he did of
environmental affairs -- he spent most of his previous tenure
focused on building South African tourism. He was educated
at the Rand Afrikaans University (now University of
Johannesburg) and is married. He was born in 1959.
¶18. (U) Deputy Tourism Minister Thozile Xasa was a former
MEC for Local Government in Eastern Cape before joining
Parliament in 2009. There is not much information available
on Xasa. Post will continue looking for relevant
biographical notes.
¶19. (U) Trade and Industry Minister Robert Davies began his
political activism in the ANC and the South African Communist
Party (SACP) while living in Mozambique. He is currently on
the ANC's National Executive Committee and the Central
Committee of the SACP. He returned to South Africa in 1990
and worked in the Department of Economic Policy at Luthuli
House. He became a member of Parliament in 1994 and
undertook a variety of policy research projects. He has led
South African delegations to World Trade Organization summits
in Seattle, Doha, Cancun, and Hong Kong. He holds degrees
from the University of Sussex, and the University of South
Hampton. He was born in 1948 and is divorced.
¶20. (U) Deputy Trade and Industry Ministers Thandi Tobias
and Maria Ntuli bring unique skills to their shared ministry.
Tobias joined Parliament in 2004 and served on various
committees throughout her tenure. She served on the Defense
Committee, the Standing Committee on Public Accounts, and the
Committee of Public Works. Ntuli comes from the ANC Women's
QCommittee of Public Works. Ntuli comes from the ANC Women's
League and served in Parliament on several committees. Some
of the committees on which she served include the Trade and
Industry Committee and the Agricultural and Land Affairs
Committee. She hails from a royal family.
¶21. (U) Transport Minister Sbusiso Ndebele was until
recently the Premier of KwaZulu Natal. (Note: Much of the
following information comes from the Consulate in Durban.
End Note.) Ndebele held the position of ANC provincial
leader for 10 years before stepping down last year. Ndebele
was born in 1948. He received his primary school education
in Melmoth (Northern Zululand) and matriculated in 1968 at
Eshongwe High School. He went on to study Library Science at
the University of Zululand and graduated in 1972. He received
a BA in International Politics and African Politics at the
University of South Africa from 1982-1983; he also qualified
for the BA Honors majoring in Development Administration and
Politics. During his time at university, Ndebele was
actively involved in the University Christian Movement and
later joined student political structures including the South
African Student Organization (SASO). In 1974, he joined the
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ANC underground and went to exile in Swaziland. He was
arrested for ANC activities in May 1976 and was sentenced to
10 years imprisonment at Robben Island. After his release, he
was employed by the University of Natal as the researcher at
the Town & Regional Planning Department. He was elected as
the Regional Secretary of the ANC Southern Natal Regional
which is now known as eThekwini. Ndebele served in the
Education and Development Trust during the 1980s.
¶22. (SBU) Ndebele was the Minister of Transport in KwaZulu
Natal for 10 years and in 2004 became the Premier of the
province. (Durban Comment: Ndebele is a long standing
leader of the ANC in KZN and played a major role in the
stabilization of the province that has long been ravaged by
political violence and intolerance. He beat his close rival
for the ANC leadership, Zweli Mkhize, twice in successive
conferences. However, with the fall-out between Mbeki and
Zuma, Ndebele, an Mbeki appointee, lost support and control
of the party in the province. After the 2007 ANC national
conference in Polokwane, during which Zuma defeated Mbeki for
the presidency of the ANC, Ndebele announced that he would
not compete for the position of provincial leader. Ndebele
remained in his position as the Premier of KZN but was seen
as a lame duck premier. In the last meeting with the CG and
Pol/Econ Assistant in 2008, Ndebele indicated his desire to
quit provincial politics and move to national assembly after
the 2009 general elections. Ndebele is not that popular with
grassroots ANC members in the province. He is considered to
be a combative and shrewd leader. Like Mbeki, he is an
African Renaissance intellectual and can come across as
standoffish. Ndebele has not been accessible to the
consulate in Durban. Although the consulate had good
relations with staff in his office, it took more than two
years for him to agree to formally meet with the CG. His
only interaction with the last ambassador was a 10-15 minute
courtesy call in his office by Ambassador Bost. One of
Ndebele's personal assistants told the Pol/Econ Assistant
that an incident at a U.S. airport during which he was
subjected to a thorough body search by airport security and
immigration officials is the cause of his negative attitude.
End Comment.)
¶23. (U) Deputy Transport Minister Jeremy Cronin is a long
time, outspoken member of the SACP and the ANC. He has
served in Parliament since 1999 as an ANC member, and has
been on the ANC's National Executive Committee since 1991.
He worked in the SACP's propaganda unit during the 1970s,
which eventually drew the attention of the apartheid
government. Cronin was arrested and served seven years in
prison. After he was released from prison, he worked for the
United Democratic Front. His work with that organization,
however, raised the ire of the apartheid government. He fled
South Africa and settled in London and then Zambia, where he
worked with Joe Slovo. Cronin frequently pens articles for
the major South African newspapers and has been an outspoken
critic of the Zimbabwean Government. He was born in 1949.
He is remarried; his first wife died of a brain tumor while
Cronin served his seven-year prison sentence.
¶24. (U) Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa
Q24. (U) Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Buyelwa
Sonjica served as Minister of Minerals and Energy from 2006
to 2009. She is one of the most seasoned ministers in Zuma's
Cabinet; before serving in the Minerals and Energy ministry,
she served as Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry from
2004 to 2006. She was Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture
from 2003 to 2004. A member of Parliament since 1994, she
was an ANC Whip from 1994 to 1999. As an MP, Sonjica served
on the Portfolio Committees for Finance, Trade and Industry,
and Water Affairs and Forestry. She chaired the Committee on
Water Affairs and Forestry. Hailing from Eastern Cape,
Sonjica became politically active during the late 1970s and
eventually joined the United Democratic Front and built upon
her trade union background. She was a member of the South
African Democratic Teachers Union from its inception. She is
a long time member of the ANC Women's League and helped build
support for Zuma's bid as party leader both in Eastern Cape
and in the Women's League. She holds degrees from several
universities. She was born in 1950 and is single.
¶25. (U) Deputy Water and Environmental Affairs Minister
Rejoice Mabhudafhasi previously served as Deputy Minister for
Environmental Affairs and Tourism from 1999 to 2009. She has
been a member of Parliament since 1994 and serves on the
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ANC's National Executive Committee. She has a long history
of activism in Limpopo and once served as National Treasurer
of the National Education Health and Allied Union (1992-1994).
¶26. (U) Women, Youth, and People with Disabilities Minister
Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya is relatively unknown. One
prominent gender rights scholar told Econoff that she "had
never heard of Mayende-Sibiya." She was elected to the ANC's
National Executive Committee at the party's 2007 congress.
She has served as the leader of the National Education,
Health, and Allied Workers' Union (NEHAWU) since 2004. She
served as NEHAWU's Deputy President from 1998 to 2004. She
has a long history of trade union activism, dating to the
mid-1980s. She has played several roles both within the
Congress of South African Trade Unions and the SACP and
worked as a provincial gender coordinator in KwaZulu Natal
under Zuma when he was premier.
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