Susan Shabangu

Minister Shabangu currently serves both the National Working Committee and the NEC of the ANC. Born in 1956, around the 80s she had long been involved in politics. She organised the Amalgamated Black Worker's Project in 1984, and went on to head the women’s desk at Cosatu. She was an Advisor to the September Commission, assigned to look at future of the unions in the mid-90s, and later became a Member of Parliament. She has actively participated in Parliamentary Committees as Labour, Transport and Trade and Industry during her tenure. A Minerals and Energy Deputy Minister from 1996; Safety and Security Deputy Minister from 2004, and eventually appointed to the current ministerial position of heading the Mining Portfolio.

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