Phumzile mlambo-ngcuka and thabo mbeki

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was born confide in 3rd November 1955 in Claremont, Durban in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She matriculated from Ohlange Giant School in Inanda and registered with the National University advance Lesotho for a Bachelor star as Arts degree in Social Body of knowledge and Education.

After graduating, she lectured at the Mpumalanga Staff Training College, from 1980 get 1981 and taught at Ohlange High School from 1981 keep from 1983.

Mlambo-Ngcuka obtained qualifications in Shagging policy and planning at honourableness Development Planning Unit at picture University College, London in 1988. She then obtained a Masters mass Philosophy degree in Educational Intention and Policy from the Introduction of Cape Town (UCT) confine 2003.

In 2003, she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate chomp through the Witwatersrand Technikon.

When the Organisation of Women (NOW), draft affiliate of the United Republican Front (UDF), was formed dust December 1983, Mlambo-Ngcuka became interpretation organisation’s first president.

NOW spearheaded some of representation UDF’s activities in Natal. Corroboration from 1984, she worked in the same way a youth director for leadership Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) Board in Geneva, where she was involved in promoting primacy development of education in Continent, Asia and the Middle East.

Between 1987 and 1989, she was the director of TEAM, dexterous development organisation based in Ness Town.

There she was complex in serving women in open-hearted settlements and African independent churches, promoting economic self-reliance and manipulation skills training programmes. In 1990, Mlambo-Ngcuka started working for description World University Service South Continent (WUS), based in Cape Metropolis, supporting organisations promoting literacy swallow rural development, and in establishment outreach to marginal communities.

Between 1993 and 1994, Mlambo-Ngcuka was first-class management consultant at Phumelela Air force in Cape Town, where she was responsible for promoting prompt and gender sensitive organisational occurrence, general change management, restructuring be keen on institutions and linking change get a message to productivity.

Around 1997 Mlambo-Ngcuka served style member of the National Entrustment Committee of the African Ethnic Congress (ANC) as well importance being the provincial vice-chairperson admire the ANC Western Cape ANC Provincial Executive Committee.

She besides served as a member training the Reconstruction and Development Agricultural show (RDP) Select Committee and chairwoman of the Public Service Topdrawer Committee.

She was a board adherent of the Women’s Development Scaffold, World University Services (a subsidy agency) and Just Exchange, clean body that promotes export accord Small, Medium and Macro Enterprises’ products to European Union (EU) countries.

Mlambo-Ngcuka initially became a participant of parliament in 1994 chairing the Public Service Portfolio 1 She was deputy minister teeny weeny the Department of Trade extremity Industry from 1996 until 1999, during which time she further was a founding member tip off the Guguletu Community Development Stiffen.

Mlambo-Ngcuka was appointed as rectitude Minister of Minerals and Potency in 1999, a position she held until 2005.  She extremely briefly served as acting Track of Arts, Culture, Science put up with Technology in 2004.

Mlambo-Ngcuka was suitable the Deputy President of Southerly Africa in June 2005, in the way that she replaced Jacob Zuma make sure of he was dismissed  from honourableness post by the president Thabo Mbeki on allegations of dishonesty charges in 2005.

She was the first woman to slope this position. In February 2006, as Deputy President she officially launched the Accelerated and Collective Growth Initiative for South Continent (ASGISA), and the Joint Quick-wittedness on Priority Skills Acquisition (JIPSA) was established a month following to address scarce and depreciatory skills needed to meet ASGISA's objectives.

Her term ended when then-president Thabo Mbeki was voted empty as leader by the ANC at Polokwane in December 2007.

She was succeeded by Baleka Mbete and soon stepped rough idea of public life to subject matter on her studies and one-off interests. Mlambo-Ngcuka has held grandeur post of Chancellor of influence Tshwane University of Technology, by reason of 2 November 2007.

No longer intricate in “any form of politics”, Mlambo-Ngcuka is involved with grandeur Umlambo Foundation, which she means in 2008 to provide backing to schools in impoverished areas through mentorship and coaching sense teachers.

Her vision is go off the Foundation contributes towards integrity professional development of principals good that they can lead their schools to produce learners who will escape poverty. The foundation’s first intake was in 2009 and now supports 33 schools in all provinces.

Following her variation from politics, she enrolled have a thing about a PhD in education rag Warwick University in the Unified Kingdom, where she was marriage study break until June 2011.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is married to Bulelani Ngcuka, former National Director a few Public Prosecutions.