1. Noxolo Kiviet was born on 21 July 1963 and is a South African politician who served as the Minister of Public Service and Administration from 2023 to 2024.
14 Facts About Noxolo Kiviet
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Noxolo Kiviet was formerly the Deputy Minister of Public Works and Infrastructure from 2019 to 2023 and served as the Premier of the Eastern Cape from 2009 to 2014.
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Noxolo Kiviet has served on the National Executive Committee of the ANC since 2017.
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Noxolo Kiviet was born on 21 July 1963 in Mdantsane in the former Cape Province.
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Noxolo Kiviet rose to political prominence through the apartheid-era trade union movement in South Africa: she rose through the ranks of the Chemical Workers' Industrial Union as Eastern Cape treasurer from 1991 to 1993 and national deputy chairperson from 1993 to 1997.
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Noxolo Kiviet became a member of the legislature in the 1994 general election.
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Noxolo Kiviet served as provincial treasurer of the ANC's Eastern Cape branch from 1996 to 2003, serving under ANC provincial chairperson Makhenkesi Stofile.
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Noxolo Kiviet held that position until the conclusion of the legislative term in the 2009 general election, after which she was elected to succeed Mbulelo Sogoni as Premier of the Eastern Cape.
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Noxolo Kiviet took office as premier on 6 May 2009, becoming the fifth person and the second woman to hold the job.
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Noxolo Kiviet took office on 30 May 2019 and deputised Minister Patricia de Lille.
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On 6 March 2023, Ramaphosa announced a cabinet reshuffle in which Noxolo Kiviet was promoted to Minister of Public Service and Administration.
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Noxolo Kiviet lost her seat in the National Assembly during the 2024 general election as the ANC lost 71 seats and its parliamentary majority.
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Noxolo Kiviet is an alumna of the University of Fort Hare in the Eastern Cape.
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Noxolo Kiviet denied this allegation, but Ramaphosa authorised the Special Investigating Unit to investigate a possible "degree-conferring scam" at the University of Fort Hare.