Nosiviwe mapisa nqakula biography of barack
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Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula, Ms
Ms Mapisa-Nqkula was the Minister of Defence and Military Veterans of the Republic of South Africa from 26 May 2014 to 5 August 2021. She is also the Chairperson of the Joint Standing Committee on Intelligence and member of the Joint Standing Committee on Defence since 1994; she has been a member of Parliament from 2004 and member of National Executive Council (NEC) of African National församling (ANC) since December 2007.
Academic Qualifications
Ms Mapisa-Nqakula holds a Primary Teacher's Diploma from the Bensonvale Teacher TRG College and a planerat arbete Management with Canadian University Studies (CUSO). She also did the Basic Human Relations Course; Community Development course; Communications course; and she also trained in ungdom Leadership and she is currently studying Psychology with the Newport University. She Matriculated from Mount Arthur High School.
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Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula: South Africa investigators raid home of parliament speaker
An elite unit of South Africa's police has raided the Johannesburg home of the speaker of parliament, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, over corruption allegations.
She has been accused of soliciting bribes in return for awarding contracts when she served as defence minister.
"The Speaker steadfastly upholds her strong conviction of innocence," said a statement from parliament.
The police unit was acting on behalf of state prosecutors who have been carrying out an investigation.
The statement from parliament said that the police "conducted a search and seizure procedure" at Ms Mapisa-Nqakula's residence, adding that she "welcomed the investigators into her home, co-operating fully" during the five-hour search.
The 67-year-old veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle became speaker in 2021. Before that, she served as defence minister fo
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Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula
South African politician (born 1956)
Nosiviwe Noluthando Mapisa-Nqakula (born 13 November 1956) is a South African politician who served as the Speaker of the National Assembly from August 2021 until her resignation on 3 April 2024. She was a cabinet minister from 2004 to 2021, including as Minister of Defence and Military Veterans between June 2012 and August 2021. She was an elected member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) between 2002 and 2022 and is a former president of the ANC Women's League.
Raised in the Eastern Cape, Mapisa-Nqakula trained as a teacher and worked in youth development until 1984, when she left South Africa to join Umkhonto we Sizwe in exile. She returned to the country in 1990 and became a national organiser for the newly relaunched ANC Women's League; she was later its secretary-general from 1993 to 1997 under league president Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. She joined the National Assembly