She served as a Deputy Minister of Health from 2004 to August 2007
She served as a Deputy Minister of Defence from 1999 to April 2004
Member of Parliament for the ANC and activist for Women’s Rights and
Peace
Serves on Portfolio Committee on Land Affairs and Parliamentary Committee
on the Improvement of the Quality of Life and Status of Women
Chairperson of the multi-party Parliamentary Women’s Group
Chairperson of the ANC Parliamentary Women’s Caucus
Second vice-president of the Co-ordinating Committee of Women Parliamentarians,
a body affiliated to the Interparliamentary Union
Serves on a number of organisations, including WOW, a network of local
women leaders
Educational background
Studied at Natal and Fort Hare Universities
Obtained a degree in Social Science, majoring in Philosophy and Sociology
Obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Adult Education
Obtained a Diploma in Medical Technology
Work Experience
Worked for six years as a Medical Laboratory Technologist
In the height of the struggle resigned to work as full-time organiser for
the Natal Organisation of Women (NOW) for three years, one of which was spent
in detention under solitary confinement
Worked as researcher at the Centre for Social and Development Studies and
at the Centre for Adult Education at Natal University. While at CSDS she produced
a manual on Lay Care for the Elderly. At the Centre for Adult Education she
worked for a research project producing easy readers for newly literate adults
Served on the National Executive Committee of the Women’s National
Coalition
Was a delegate at Codesa and worked as a Managing Secretary for the Transitional
Executive Council (TEC) Subcouncil on the Status of Women
Served on the RDP Task Team to draft policy on the Empowerment of Women
Publications
Has published articles and papers for newspapers, magazines and journals,
such as Work in Progress and Speak
Has published easy readers for newly literate adults
Published a manual for caregivers of elderly people
Co-authored a chapter on South African Feminism for a book on Global Feminisms
published in 1995
Co-authored South Africa’s report to the UN for the Fourth World
Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995
Personal Background
Nozizwe was born in KwaZulu-Natal. She went to school at Magog and Fairview
Schools and Inanda Seminary, a girls’ high school in Durban. She is
married to Jeremy and has two sons, Martin and Simon. She is a member of the
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). She moved to Cape Town in 1994 and
enjoys walking on Table Mountain.
