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Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo was born on 19 June, 1925 in Benoni, Transvaal, is a South African politician. Discover Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?

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Age 75 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 19 June 1925
Birthday 19 June
Birthplace Benoni, Transvaal
Date of death 2000
Died Place Johannesburg
Nationality South Africa

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1925

Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo (19 June 1925 – 13 January 2000 ) was a South African politician.

He served as the longest-standing secretary-general of the African National Congress.

1945

After completing his matric, he enrolled for BSc degree at Fort Hare University in 1945.

At Fort Hare he joined the African National Congress (ANC) Youth League and became actively involved in students politics.

1950

As health inspector, Nzo developed much understanding of the lives of millions of South Africans in the 1950s.

1951

In his second year of study he left university and started work as health inspector at KwaDukathole in Germiston and was later transferred to the Alexandra health and community centre in 1951.

1952

He got actively involved in the organising of the Defiance Campaign in 1952.

He was also involved in the campaign to interview people about the kind of society in which they would like to live.

1955

It was this campaign that culminated in the Congress of the People in 1955, at which the Freedom Charter was adopted.

1956

In 1956 Nzo was elected the chairperson of ANC branch in Alexandra.

1957

In 1957 he organised the Alexandra bus boycotts in which people walked nine miles from the township to the city (Johannesburg) and back every day for three months to protest the increase in fares.

His involvement in political activities cost him his job.

His expulsion from work meant that he also lost his residential permit to live in Alexandra.

He was subsequently arrested several times and finally sentenced to five months' imprisonment for not having a residence permit.

He served his sentence at Modderbee Prison, where his father once worked.

1958

In 1958, Nzo was elected to the regional and national executive committees of the ANC.

1962

In 1962, he was placed under 24-hour house arrest and in June 1963 detained for a period of 238 days.

The following year, Nzo went into exile and took up posts in various countries including Egypt, India, Zambia and Tanzania.

1969

He occupied this position (ANC) between 1969 and 1991.

In 1969, Nzo was elected ANC Secretary-General at the Morogoro Conference in Tanzania, and re-elected to this position at the Kwabe Conference in 1985.

1979

On 30 December 1979 he and Oliver Tambo met Tim Jenkin, Stephen Lee and Alex Moumbaris, ANC members and escapees from incarceration at Pretoria Central Prison as political prisoners.

1980

Their presence was officially announced by the ANC in early January and Tambo introduced them at a press conference on 2 January 1980.

1989

After the unbanning of the liberation movements in 1989, Nzo formed part of the ANC delegation that entered into deliberations with the National Party government.

1991

Nzo lost the position of Secretary-General to Cyril Ramaphosa at the ANC July 1991 National Conference held in South Africa for the first time after the unbanning of the liberation movements.

He was then elected deputy head of the ANC's security department.

1994

He was also the South African minister of foreign affairs from 1994 to 1999.

He was also the first black health inspector in the country.

The Alfred Nzo Award is now awarded to deserving health practitioners in South Africa.

He was sent off to the Eastern Cape to receive missionary education.

After the first democratic elections in 1994, Nzo was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Nelson Mandela.

2011

After the 1999 national elections, Nzo retired from politics and in December of the same year he died of a stroke and he was survived by his wife Regina Nzo who died on 27 September 2011 at the ages of 81 years old.

He was buried at the Westpark Cemetery in Johannesburg.