Maite Nkoana-Mashabane

Maite Emily Nkoana - Mashabane ( born September 30, 1963 in Makgobaskloof, Transvaal, now Limpopo Province) is a South African diplomat and politician.

Biography

Maite Nkoana grew up in Ga - Makanye ( Limpopo ). During the 1980s, she was an active member of the founded in August 1983, the United Democratic Front (UDF) and worked on several committees of the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM ) and in the underground structures of the African National Congress ( ANC). After the lifting of the ban on the ANC in 1990 she was especially in the women's association of the ANC (ANC Women's League) active and helped build the structures in the Republic of South Africa. Between 1992 and 1995 she was not only president of the ANC Women's League in the Limpopo Province, but also a member of the National Working Committee of the Women's League of the ANC. At the same time it was between 1994 and 1995 deputies of the National Assembly.

In 1995, her appeal to the High Commissioner in Malaysia. In this role, she held until 1999, it was also accredited as Ambassador to the Philippines and Brunei. Between 1999 and November 2004, it was accredited High Commissioner in India, and as such also as ambassador to Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the Maldives and Nepal.

In November 2004 she returned to South Africa and was established in January 2005 Member of the Executive Council ( MEC) for Local Government and Housing in the government of the province of Limpopo. During this time, the National Govan Mbeki Housing - price their authority won in 2008 for the best housing authority of a province. Furthermore, she was even elected by the Chamber of Commerce of Pietersburg Woman of the Year 2008 in the media.

At the same time she took over from 2004 again leadership positions in the ANC and was initially between 2004 and 2008 Deputy Secretary General of the ANC in Limpopo province and at the same time member of the National Executive Committee and the National Working Committee of the ANC Women's League.

Since 2007, Ms. Nkoana - Mashabane is Head of the Progressive Women's Movement (PWM ) of the Limpopo Province and also a member of the National Executive Committee and the National Working Committee of the ANC.

On 10 May 2009 she was appointed by the new President Jacob Zuma to the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation and Minister of Foreign Affairs of South Africa so as successor to the former wife Zuma, Nkosazana Dlamini -Zuma, who assumed the office of Minister of the Interior. In September 2009, she was Chair of the Council of Ministers of the Southern African Development Community ( SADC) at the community meeting in Kinshasa.

Nkoana - Mashabane woman is widowed.