Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma
Nkosazana Dlamini -Zuma ( born January 27, 1949 in the province of Natal) is a South African doctor and politician. Since July 2012 she is also chairman of the African Union Commission ( AU). Previously she was the Minister of the Interior of South Africa in the government of her former husband Jacob Zuma.
Life
The oldest of eight children of a Catholic teacher grew up in Natal, is claims to be on the Zulu people. After the Amanzimtoti Training College ( completion 1967), she moved to the University of Zululand, which she left in 1971 with a bachelor's degree in zoology and botany. After she committed to including as Vice President of the South African Students Organization ( SASO ) and the African National Congress ( ANC), she left South Africa before she could finish her medical studies at the University of Natal. She went into political exile in the UK. There she became involved, among others, from 1977 to 1978 as President of the ANC Youth Section.
Also in 1978, she completed her medical degree at the Bachelor's degree at the University of Bristol from ( Medicine and Surgery). Another diploma ( Tropical Pediatrics ) she graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1986. Stations as a doctor led Dlamini -Zuma to Bristol ( Frenchay Hospital, 1978-1979 ), Berkshire (Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital, 1979-1980 ), Swaziland ( Mbabane Government Hospital, from 1980 to 1985 ) and London ( Whittington Hospital, 1987-1989 ). After the post of director of the British Health Refugee Trust (1988-1990) she went back to Africa and worked for the ANC Health Department in Lusaka Zambia (1989-1990 ). From 1991 to 1994, she devoted herself to the research at the Medical Research Council in Durban. At the same Dlamini -Zuma was still politically active in KwaZulu -Natal and became a manager for the ANC (1990-1992 chairman of the Health Committee, 1991-1993 Chair of the Women's League ). In 1994 she was elected to the ANC Executive Committee.
After the end of apartheid and the first general elections in South Africa in 1994 Dlamini -Zuma was appointed health minister in the government of Nelson Mandela. In this position, she sat down by opposition from the pharmaceutical industry and opened the South African market for cheaply produced and generic medicines from third countries. She also campaigned for the medical care of pregnant women and children, the legalization of abortion on demand as well as for a strict ban on smoking in public places. The latter commitment earned her the 1999 Tobacco Free World Award by the World Health organization. In contrast to a scandal got a project financed by the Ministry of Health musical to AIDS education, which was performed twice to corruption only.
From 1999 to 2009 officiated Dlamini -Zuma as Foreign Minister of South Africa under President Thabo Mbeki. International criticism became their " quiet diplomacy " towards the Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, who scored no successes. Since 11 May 2009 she is Minister of the Interior in the government of Jacob Zuma, while her successor was the Foreign Ministry Maite Nkoana - Mashabane. With the avowed polygamists Zuma Dlamini -Zuma from 1982 to 1998 ( partly vary the dates of marriage, ranging from 1972 to 1997 ) married. From this connection, four daughters were born. Dlamini -Zuma is considered to be resolute and diligent, but also as impatient and results-oriented politician.
On July 15, 2012 Dlamini -Zuma was elected as the first woman ever to Commission Chairperson of the African Union. She sat down in a power struggle with the necessary two-thirds majority against the former Gabonese incumbent Jean Ping through. Dlamini -Zuma appreciated your victory as a sign of women's emancipation in Africa. They said that they want to make the AU " efficient ".