Fholisani Sydney Mufamadi is the former Minister of Safety & Security and present Minister of Provincial and Local Government (http://www.dplg.gov.za/) of The Republic of South Africa (pronunciation) is a large republic in Southern Africa. It is located at the southern tip of the continent, and borders Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Swaziland. The small nation of Lesotho is entirely contained within South African territory. Its economy is the largest and most... South Africa.

Sydney Mufamadi was born on 28 February 1959 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburgs skyline as seen from the observation deck of the Carlton Centre. Johannesburg is the most populous city in South Africa and the second most populous city in Sub-Saharan Africa, behind Lagos. Local residents refer to the city as Joburg or Jozi. The Zulu name for the... Johannesburg. Mufamadi is the eldest of the four children of Masindi and Reuben Mufamadi. He grew up in The Meadowlands Pavilion New Jersey Meadowlands is a general name for the large ecosystem of wetlands in northeast New Jersey in the United States. The Meadowlands are notorious for being the site of large landfills and decades of environmental abuse. The Meadowlands stretch mainly along the terminus of the Hackensack... Meadowlands (in the Categories: South Africa stubs | Provinces of South Africa | Gauteng Province ... Gauteng Province) and in Tshisahulu ( Categories: Stub | South African Bantustans ... Venda) in the Categories: Provinces of South Africa | South Africa stubs | Limpopo Province ... Limpopo Province of The Republic of South Africa (pronunciation) is a large republic in Southern Africa. It is located at the southern tip of the continent, and borders Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Swaziland. The small nation of Lesotho is entirely contained within South African territory. Its economy is the largest and most... South Africa. In Venda young Sydney first looked after his grandfather’s cattle and then attended school. His father worked in Johannesburg as did his mother who sold home-brewed alcohol to supplement the family income. Mufamadi’s mother was arrested for illegally selling alcohol to contribute to family income and he saw the unjust apartheid legal system first-hand at an early age. Mufamadi completed his schooling at Khwevha High School in Shayandima in Venda in 1977.

In 1976 with the spread of Soweto Uprising, into other areas of the country, Mufamadi became a member of Zoutpansberg Students Organisation, which led the boycotts in Venda during October 1977. Many student leaders were arrested, and others, including Mufamadi, went underground. When the schools re-opened he was refused re-admission and was briefly prevented by the apartheid state from completing his schooling. He moved to Johannesburgs skyline as seen from the observation deck of the Carlton Centre. Johannesburg is the most populous city in South Africa and the second most populous city in Sub-Saharan Africa, behind Lagos. Local residents refer to the city as Joburg or Jozi. The Zulu name for the... Johannesburg and enrolled at an international Correspondence College. In 1977 he joined the The African National Congress (ANC), originally (until 1923) South African Native National Congress, has been South Africas governing party since the establishment of majority rule in May 1994. It was founded to defend the rights of the black majority on January 8, 1912 in the city of Bloemfontein, and... African National Congress (ANC), in the next year he was a founder member of the Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO), and in 1981 he joined the Categories: South African politics | South African political parties | Politics stubs | Communist parties ... South African Communist Party (SACP). His involvement in AZAPO led to a two-month detention without trial at John Vorster Square, Johannesburg, under section 6 of the Terrorism Act.

In 1980 Mufamadi worked as a private teacher at Lamula Secondary School, Soweto is an urban area in Johannesburg, in Gauteng province South Africa. In 1950 during the apartheid regime, Soweto was constructed to be self-sufficent for the specific purpose of housing African people who were then living in areas designated by the government for white settlement (such as the multi... Soweto, where he assisted members of the Congress of South African Students with political activities. In 1981 he left the teaching profession to work as a messenger for a firm of attorneys and subsequently joined the General and Allied Workers Union (GAWU) and participated in the June 16 stay-away of that year. His employer saw a newspaper clipping of Mufamadi addressing the workers, and he was fired for taking part in political activities. He worked voluntarily for GAWU and in 1982 and again in 1984 was elected General Secretary of the organisation. In 1983 he attended the launch of the Categories: Politics stubs | Liberal related stubs | Liberal parties | Malawi political parties ... United Democratic Front (UDF) in The central area of Cape Town as seen from Table Mountain. Cape Town and Table Mountain - Landsat Image over SRTM Elevation. [1] Cape Town ( Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: eKapa or SaseKapa) is the third most populous city in South Africa. It is the legislative capital of South Africa, as well as... Cape Town, and was later elected Transvaal publicity secretary of the organisation, a position he held until 1990. In 1984 he was detained twice in the Categories: Stub | South African Bantustans ... Ciskei during April and again in September.

Following the successful Flag of Transvaal The Transvaal was one of the provinces of South Africa from 1910 until 1994. The province no longer exists, and its territory now forms all, or part of, the provinces of Gauteng, North West, Limpopo and Mpumalanga. History The Transvaal region is known to have been inhabited... Transvaal regional stayaway in November 1984, Mufamadi was subpoenaed to appear as a state witness at the trial of some of its organisers. However, when some of the accused fled the country, charges were withdrawn and he was not called to testify. In 1985 when the state of emergency was declared, Mufamadi operated underground to avoid detention, resurfacing to help organise and attend the December 1985 launch of the The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is a trade union federation in South Africa. It was founded in 1985 and is the biggest of the country’s three main trade union federations, with 21 affiliated trade unions, altogether organising 1.8 million workers. Cosatu was established in... Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in Durban. He was elected Assistant General Secretary at its inaugural rally. He operated underground from June 1986 to October 1986, but openly resumed his work despite the continuing state of emergency. He was again detained on 8 June 1987 for political activities.

In June 1988 Mufamadi headed a planning committee to organise an anti-apartheid conference in Cape Town, which aimed to include delegates from a broad spectrum of anti-apartheid organisations. On September 1988 the government prohibited the holding of the conference and restricted the organisers of the conference from entering Cape Town for a ten-day period. In January 1990 he travelled with the The Rivonia Trial was an infamous trial which took place in South Africa between 1963 and 1964, in which ten leaders of the African National Congress were tried for 221 acts of sabotage designed to ferment violent revolution. It was named after Rivonia, the suburb of Johannesburg where 19 ANC... Rivonia Trialists to Lusaka, Zambia is a republic in south central Africa. It borders the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola. Zambias capital and largest city is Lusaka. National motto: One Zambia, One Nation Official languages English Capital Lusaka 15° 00′ S, 30° 00... Zambia to meet with the The African National Congress (ANC), originally (until 1923) South African Native National Congress, has been South Africas governing party since the establishment of majority rule in May 1994. It was founded to defend the rights of the black majority on January 8, 1912 in the city of Bloemfontein, and... African National Congress Executive Committee. In 1991 he was elected to the party’s central committee. At the ANC congress held in Durban is a vibrant cosmopolitian city in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. It is also known by Zulu-speakers as eThekwini, the meaning of which is unclear (guesses range from lagoon to the one-testicled one. A number of towns including Durban have joined together to form eThekwini / Durban Metro... Durban in July 1991, he was elected to the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) and to serve on its working committee. In 1991 he did not stand for re-election as COSATU Assistant General Secretary. He was an SACP delegate at the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) working group dealing with the future of the independent Bantustan refers to any of the territories designated as tribal homelands for black South Africans during the Apartheid era. The term bantustan was first used in the late 1940s and was coined from Bantu (meaning people in the Bantu languages) and -stan (meaning land of), and was based on Hindustan... Bantustans/ homelands. Mufamadi was appointed Minister of Safety and Security in the Government of National Unity in 1994, after having served on the sub-council on law and order of the Transitional Executive Council. Mufamadi is currently the Minister of Provincial and Local Government, a position he has held since 1999.

Mufamadi currently lives in Johannesburg with his wife Wendy and two children. Source  (http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/people/mufamadi-fs.htm)

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