Charles Nqakula

Charles Nqakula (born September 13, 1942) has been South Africa's Minister of Safety and Security since May 7, 2002. Tipped as a contender for the future presidency of South Africa, he is concurrently national chairperson of the South African Communist Party (SACP). Image File history File links CharlesNqakula. ... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ... The Ministry of Safety and Security is one of the ministries of the South African government. ... May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... SACP symbol South African Communist Party (SACP) is a political party in South Africa. ...

Early life

Charles Nqakula attended primary school at Cradock and secondary school at Lovedale, matriculating in 1963. He worked as a hotel waiter and wine steward, after which he became a clerk in the Department of Bantu Education. The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. ... Lovedale was a mission station and educational institute in the Victoria East division of the Cape Province, South Africa (now in Eastern Cape Province). ...

Journalism

In 1966, Nqakula started as a journalist with the Midland News, a regional weekly newspaper in Cradock. Seven years later, he became a political reporter with Imvo Zabantsundu in King William's Town. From 1976 he worked for the Daily Dispatch in East London until he was placed under an apartheid banning order in 1981. Nqakula was unbanned the following year but, because his village had been redesignated as part of the Ciskei independent homeland, he was unable to re-enter South African territory and was declared a prohibited immigrant. King Williams Town, a town of South Africa, in the Eastern Cape province and on the Buffalo River, 50 kilometers, 42 miles by rail or about 40 minutes motorway drive W.N.W. of the Indian Ocean port of East London. ... East London (Afrikaans: Oos-Londen, Xhosa: Imonti) is a city in southeast South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province at 32. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A homeland is the concept of the territory to which one belongs; usually, the country in which a particular nationality was born. ...

He became a member of the Union of Black Journalists (UBJ) and was elected vice-president of the union in 1976. The UBJ was banned in October 1977 as part of a government crackdown on organisations supporting the Black Consciousness Movement. In 1979 he was elected vice-president of the Writers' Association of South Africa (WASA), which later became the Media Workers Association of South Africa (MWASA). Although frequently being detained by both the South African and Ciskeian authorities, he managed to establish the Veritas News Agency in Zwelitsha towards the end of 1982. The Black Consciousness Movement was a movement which called for non-violent black resistance to the Apartheid government in South Africa. ... Zwelitsha is a town in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. ...

Politics

Charles Nqakula was elected publicity secretary of the fledgling United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983, and was arrested the same year in East London for being in South Africa without a visa. By this time Nqakula was an underground operative for the ANC, specialising in propaganda. He left South Africa in 1984 travelling to Lesotho, Tanzania and Zambia. He underwent military training in Angola and joined MK the armed wing of the ANC. He also travelled to the Soviet Union and East Germany for further military training. Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | Liberal parties | Malawi political parties ... The African National Congress (ANC) is a centre-left political party, and has been South Africas governing party supported by a tripartite alliance between itself, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) since the establishment of majority rule in May 1994. ... For other uses of Umkhonto, see Umkhonto (disambiguation) Umkhonto we Sizwe (or MK), translated Spear of the Nation, was the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). ... GDR redirects here. ...

He infiltrated South Africa on his return as one of the commanders of Operation Vula, with a mission to build viable underground and military structures. In 1988, he served as commander in the Western Cape. Emerging from the underground in 1991, he was granted amnesty by the government. He served on the interim leadership group of the SACP, as convenor of its National Organising Committee. He was also a member of its Political Committee and served on the SACP Secretariat. He was elected SACP Deputy Secretary-General in 1991 and became Secretary-General following the assassination of Chris Hani. The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. ... Chris Hani, born Martin Thembisile Hani (June 28, 1942 – April 10, 1993) was the leader of the South African Communist Party and Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). ...

Upon the demise of the apartheid government and the election of President Nelson Mandela in 1994, Nqakula was elected to the National Executive Committee of the ANC. He later served as Parliamentary Counsellor to the President. On January 24, 2001 Charles Nqakula was appointed Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, becoming Minister of Safety and Security in May 2002. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela OM, CC, AC, QC (IPA ) (born 18 July 1918) was the first President of South Africa to be elected in fully-representative democratic elections. ... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...

Controversy: Crime Rate in South Africa

Nqakula caused an outrage among South Africans in June 2006 when he responded to opposition MP's in parliament (who were not satisfied that enough was being done to counter crime), when he said that South Africans who complain about the country's crime rate, should stop whining and leave the country".[1] June is the sixth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with a length of 30 days. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... States currently utilizing parliamentary systems are denoted in orange and red—the former being constitutional monarchies where authority is vested in a parliament, and the latter being parliamentary republics whose parliaments are effectively supreme over a separate head of state. ... This graph shows the rate of non-fatal firearm-related crime in the United States from 1993 to 2003. ... A memorial statue in Hanko, Finland, commemorating the thousands of emigrants who left the country to start a new life in the United States Emigration is the act and the phenomenon of leaving ones native country to settle abroad. ...

According to a United Nations Survey on Crime Trends [2], South Africa has the second highest murder rate in the world. South Africa also has the highest occurrence of rape in the world. Nqakula failed to realise the consequence of his statement, as many people around the world are starting to make travel arrangements for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, an international tournament for association football, that will take place in South Africa. ...

Nqakula was again criticized while he was in Burundi, promoting peace and democracy, while there was a spate of violent crime in Gauteng. This spate included the killings of an alarming number of people, including members of the South African Police Service killed while performing their duties. The criticism preceded a subsequent announcement by the minister that an all out effort would be made to quell the alarming increase of crime by 30 December 2006. 54 police officers have lost their lives in the first 7 months of 2006. Categories: South Africa stubs | Provinces of South Africa | Gauteng Province ... The South African Police Service is the national police force of the Republic of South Africa. ... December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Profile of Charles Nqakula

• SA Crime Web Site