Jeff Radebe

Jeffrey Thamsanqa " Jeff" Radebe ( born February 18, 1953 in Cato Manor, Durban ) is a South African politician and Minister of Justice of his country.

Life

Radeba studied law at the University of Zululand, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws. In 1976, he joined the African National Congress in 1977, he left South Africa and first went to Mozambique, then to Tanzania and Zambia. There he worked for the ANC and the Umkhonto we Sizwe was formed (MK ). In 1981 he took a Master of Laws from the University of Leipzig. From Lesotho from he built the underground structures of the ANC and the South African Communist Party ( SACP ) on with. He was arrested in 1986 in Johannesburg and convicted of terrorism by the apartheid regime in South Africa for ten years on Robben Iceland. In 1990, he was released after a twelve- day hunger strike.

1990 Radebe deputy of the Südnatal the ANC region and secretary of the SACP, after he had held various positions in the provincial administration of the party. Since 1991 he is a member of the national executive committee and is the national working committee of the ANC. After the parliamentary elections in South Africa in 1994 he was Minister of Public Relations in the cabinet of Nelson Mandela. In the cabinet of Thabo Mbeki, he was from 1999 to 2004 Minister for State Enterprises. After that, he was from 2004 to 2009 Minister of Transport and has been Minister of Justice.

Radebe is married to Bridgette Radebe, South Africa's first mining entrepreneur and billionaire Patrice Motsepe sister.