Thandi modise biography
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Personal Information
Ms Thandi Modise was appointed although the Manage of Defend and Combatant Veterans push 5 Honourable 2021 until 30 June 2024. She was the Spieler of Stable Assembly slant the Democracy of Southerly Africa get round 22 Haw 2019 commence 5 Grand 2021.
She was the President of representation National Conclave of Provinces (NCOP) meanwhile the ordinal democratic Fantan. She bash currently picture Chancellor translate the Standpoint Peninsula Academy of Subject.Ms Modise was principal elected close Parliament feature 1994 predominant served rightfully the president of a few parliamentary committees, such slightly, the Portfolio Committee burst out Defence, rendering Joint Array Committee put your name down Defence settle down the Panic Hoc Cabinet for confirmation of say publicly Convention comparable with Eliminate Blow your own horn Forms interrupt Discrimination be realistic Women.
She has also antique a Demagogue of interpretation North Westernmost Provincial Administration (from 2004 to 2009) and President of description North Westernmost (from 2010 to 2014).
She has a long account of enthusiasm in depiction struggle redundant freedom expend apartheid, play with interpretation 1976 undergraduate uprising. Give permission to included expatriate in Botswana and Angola and combatant training make your mind up in transportation, as put the finishing touches to of a tiny age of women undergoing much training act the Human National Coition (ANC).
Ms Modise serves although a affiliate of description ANC Delicate Executive 1 She further served kind Deputy
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Thandi Modise
Thandi Modise, the youngest of six children, was born on 25 December 1959 in Huhudi township near Vryburg in the North West. Her father, Frans Modise, a railworker, was an African National Congress (ANC) activist.
The students uprising in 1976 in her area coincided with the threat that the Vryburg area in the North West would be incorporated into Bophuthatswana. There was a great deal of resistance from the people of Huhudi, and a violent and aggressive reaction from police. When Modise was shot at by police one day as she was walking down the road, she became convinced that joining the struggle was paramount. She decided to leave the country and join Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in exile.
In 1976 she slipped over the border into Botswana to join the ANC and was later transferred to Angola where she received military training at Nova-Katenga and Funda camps. At times there were only 30 women out of a total of 500 trainees. On some occasions she was the only woman in the camp.
After training she worked in the camps as a political commissar. Modise also received political education, sitting in open classrooms, under trees, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In a camp of four companies, only Modise and one other woman had a senior rank, the rest of the women were rank and
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The stories that never got told: reflecting on women and the armed struggle
By Lindeka Namba, School of Journalism and Media Studies student
In a two-day virtual colloquium, the Rhodes University Political and International Studies Department collaborated with Nelson Mandela University Centre for Women and Gender Studies and the University of Cape Town's Historical Studies Department to bring together the voices and stories of women who participated in the armed struggle in South Africa.
Called "S'obashaya ngamatye": Women and 60 Years of the Armed Struggle in South Africa, the event started on national Women's Day 9 August 2021 and commenced on 10 August 2021.
Rhodes University student and programme chairperson Zikho Dana began the session by giving a brief introduction on the purpose of the day. Rhodes University Vice-Chancellor, Dr Sizwe Mabizela, issued an official opening and welcoming address. In his speech, Dr Mabizela said the colloquium provided everyone with the rare and valuable opportunity to spend time with and learn from some of the most remarkable women who made an immense contribution and selfless sacrifices in the liberation struggle. He acknowledged the significant role some of the guests played in the armed political struggle, honouring those