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Zola Skweyiya was born on 14 April, 1942 in Simon's Town, South Africa, is a South African politician (1942–2018). Discover Zola Skweyiya'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 Aries
Born 14 April, 1942
Birthday 14 April
Birthplace Simon's Town, South Africa
Date of death 11 April, 2018
Died Place Pretoria, South Africa
Nationality South Africa

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1942

Zola Sidney Themba Skweyiya OLS (14 April 1942 – 11 April 2018) was a South African politician who was Minister of Public Service and Administration from 1994 to 1999 and Minister of Social Development from 1999 to 2009.

He was born in Simon's Town, Western Cape, in 1942.

He is the young brother of Thembile Skweyiya.

He completed high school in Alice, Eastern Cape, at Lovedale College.

His political activity began then, when he involved himself in protest against changes to Bantu education.

After high school, he attended Fort Hare University and became active with the African National Congress (ANC).

1961

When the ANC declared the beginnings of the armed struggle in 1961, he became part of its armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK).

1963

He left South Africa in 1963, joining the ANC in exile in Tanzania and Zambia.

1969

He furthered his education in East Germany, where he studied law from 1969, and obtained a PhD ten years later.

1985

Until 1985, Skweyiya was the ANC's representative at the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), before being recalled to Lusaka to set up the ANC's Legal and Constitutional Department.

1986

In 1986, he was deputy chair of the ANC's constitutional committee with members such as Jack Simons, Kader Asmal and Albie Sachs.

During 1986, and until 1988, he attempted to investigate the conditions of detention of ANC members by the ANC security wing of the Department of National Intelligence and Security.

1990

This committee developed the ANC constitutional guidelines that would eventually be used after the ANC's unbanning in 1990, during negotiations that would lead to the first elections in which citizens of all races voted in 1994 and a South African Constitution.

After his return from exile in 1990, he directed the Department of Legal and Constitutional Affairs.

He helped to set up the Centre for Development Studies and the South African Legal Defence Fund, both at the University of the Western Cape.

Skweyiya also served on the board of trustees of the National Commission for the Rights of Children.

He was also elected as president of UNESCO's Management of Social Transformations.

1994

Skweyiya was first elected to Parliament in 1994, and he joined the Cabinet as Minister of Public Service and Administration in the same year.

1999

He was moved to the position of Minister of Social Development under President Thabo Mbeki in 1999.

2006

Skweyiya is credited with the creation of the South African Social Security Agency, launched on 1 April 2006, aiming to address corruption and maladministration in the social grants payments system.

2007

Skweyiya was re-elected to the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress in 2007.

2009

After 15 years in the Cabinet and Parliament, his retirement from both was announced on 6 May 2009, following the April 2009 general election.

As a result, he was not sworn in for the new parliamentary term.

He did not leave politics altogether, however; he remained a member of the ANC National Executive Committee, and on 7 May 2009 the party announced that he would have a new post working at the ANC Presidency.

According to ANC Secretary-General Gwede Mantashe, Skweyiya voluntarily chose to leave parliamentary politics, "contrary to current speculative and surreptitious commentary".

He praised Skweyiya's "immense skill and expertise" and said that the ANC still wanted to make use of his abilities.

Skweyiya was appointed by President Jacob Zuma as the South African High Commissioner to the United Kingdom in September 2009.

2011

From 2011 to 2015, an annual Zola Skweyiya Lecture series was hosted by the Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy (CASASP) at the University of Oxford, with the inaugural lecture being given by Dr Skweyiya himself.

2018

Skweyiya died at a Pretoria hospital on 11 April 2018, at the age of 75, leaving behind his second wife, Thuthukile, and two stepchildren, and a son from his first marriage.