Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo
Alfred Nzo Baphethuxolo ( born May 26, 1925 in Benoni or Elliot, † January 13, 2000 in Randburg, Johannesburg) was a South African politician who until 1999 worked as long as Foreign Minister Secretary General of the African National Congress ( ANC) and of 1994.
Life
Nzo was born in 1925. His father was an employee of a mining company in Benoni. Alfred Nzo visited a mission school in today's Eastern Cape Province. In 1945 he began studying for a Bachelor of Science at the University of Fort Hare. In the second year, he broke off his studies and became a member of the ANC Youth League. He moved into the township KwaDukathole in Germiston and trained there for the first black South African health inspector. From 1951 he practiced this activity in Alexandra. In 1952 he took part in the Defiance Campaign. In 1956 he was ANC chairman in Alexandra, 1957, he organized the bus boycott of Alexandra, in consequence of a price increase had to be withdrawn. However Nzo lost his job and was repeatedly arrested and imprisoned five months. In 1958 he was elected to the National Executive Committee of the ANC. In 1963, he was serving a 238 -day arrest; 1964 commissioned him to the ANC, to go abroad. He represented the ANC in Egypt, India, Zambia and Tanzania. In 1969 he was elected at the Morogoro Conference in Tanzania the new Secretary General of the ANC; In 1985 he was re-elected at the Kabwe Conference in Zambia. In 1989 he was one of the ANC delegation that first led negotiations on an end of apartheid with representatives of the ruling National Party. In 1991, he lost the election for Secretary General Cyril Ramaphosa against, he received the post of deputy chairman of the security department of the ANC. 1994 the ANC won the parliamentary elections. Nzo was appointed Foreign Minister and held that post under President Nelson Mandela made up to the 1999 elections. He retired from politics and suffered in December of the same year a stroke, the consequences of which he died in early 2000.
Honors
- The Alfred Nzo Achievement Awards, prizes for practitioners in the field of environmental health shall be awarded annually since 2002.