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Current Positions
* Minister of Trade and Industry of the Republic of South Africa since 11 May 2009.
Academic Qualifications
* Honours degree in Economics.
* Masters degree in International Relations from the University of South Hampton,United Kingdom (UK).
* Doctorate degree in Political Studies from the University of Sussex.
Career/Memberships/Positions/Other Activities
* Member of Parliament since 1994.
* Member of both the African National Congress (ANC) and South African Communist Party (SACP) in Mozambique.
* Returned to South Africa in August 1990 and worked in the Department of Economic Policy at ANC Head Office in Johannesburg.
* Professor and Co-Director of Centre for Southern African Studies at University of the Western Cape (UWC).
* He undertook policy research for ANC and Southern African Development Community (SADC).
* Member of the South African Ministerial delegation to World Trade Organization (WTO) in Seattle (1999), Doha (2001), Cancun (2003) and Hong Kong (2005).
* Led South African Delegation to the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP)-European Union.
* Member of joint Parliamentary Assembly (JPA) since 1995.
* Member of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly bureau and ACP Co-Vice President of the Human Rights.
* Member of Eminent Persons Group put in place by the Global Coalition for Africa (2003).
* Member of both Central Committee and Political Bureau of the SACP.
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