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Profile: Ms Fatima Nagdee Hajaig, Deputy Minister
Personal
Date and Place of Birth : 10 December 1938
Johannesburg, Gauteng Province
Academic Qualifications
1963 : BA, University of Witwatersrand
1967 : LLB, University of EötvösLorand, Budapest
1995 – 1996 : Diploma in Macro-Economics, NIEP
1997 : Certificate in Conflict Resolution, Centre for Conflict Resolution (UCT)
Areas of Specialisation
- Foreign Affairs
- Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
- Trade, Investment and Industrial policy
Other training and / or professional programs completed
1997 : Certificate in Foreign Affairs and the Media, University of Princeton, USA
Career/Memberships/Positions/Other
Activities
1984 – 1986 : Director - Advice Centre: Providing information & initiating solutions to a wide range of problems experienced by the poor at Sivotrans, Ivory Coast.
1986 – 1994
: Head of Department of Development of Women and Youth in poverty stricken areas - Training workshops in sewing & knitting, Bursaries – technical skills training, Employment opportunities, Feeding schemes in various townships at the Central Islamic Trust.
1994 - Oct 2008 : Member of Parliament - Chairperson Sub-Committee on International Affairs, Member of Trade & Industry Portfolio Committee, Member of Quality of Life & Status of Women, Member of the Pan African Parliament, Member of the SADC Parliamentary Forum, Member of Sub-Committee – African Peer Review, Mechanism, Member of the Joint Rules committee (Task Team on Parliament’s International Relations Policy).
2008 : Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Career Path
Preferred sector/s of work
- Foreign Affairs
- Adult Literacy
Further training needed in preferred carrier path
- Foreign Affairs – Diplomatic
- Specialised training for Adult Literacy Teaching
Organisational Profile
Positions held / holding in the ANC (starting from current to past)
1994 – current : Member of National Assembly, Cape Town
1992 – 2004 : Member of ANCWL, Provincial Executive, Gauteng
1992 – 1998 : Member of ANC Branch, Mayfair, Gauteng
1998 – current : Member of ANC Branch, Refilwe Cullinan / Olaf Palme
Since 1965 : Member of ANC in exile, Tanzania, Hungary, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, UK, Canada, Lebanon
1990 – 1994 : Chairperson ANCWL, Mayfair Branch, Gauteng
Positions in community / sectoral organisations/boards, etc.
1995 – current : Member of International Council, Parliamentarians for Global Action
1992 – 1994 : Vice Presicent, Transvaal Indian Congress, Representative at CODESA talks
1985 – 1994 : Executive Director Development of Women and Children In Poverty, Central Islamic Trust
1988 – current : Executive Member, Call of Islam, UDF Alliance
1988 – 1994 : Member, JISS Nursery School Board
Skills gained by above experience
- Leadership
- Understanding the issues facing the majority of the people in SA
- Campaigning for Political Rights, Alleviation of Poverty
- Negotiating Skills – Economic Rights
- Expertise in Foreign Affairs
Most important Political training courses, workshops/study tours
1996 :
Wufdy Conference in Bulgaria : Political situations of Third World Countries
Since 1990 : Various ANC workshops
1993 – 1994 : Workshops for Parliamentary candidates
ANC Provincial and National Conferences attended
2007 : Polokwane: representing province of Gauteng
1990 – 1994 : Consultative – UDF: delegate attending Call of Islam
1990 – 2004 : All ANCWL Conference: as member of PEC, Gauteng
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