Meet Minister Lindiwe Zulu’s Parents

Lindiwe Zulu is a South African politician and communications strategist who is currently serving as Minister of Social Development. Before her appointment to that office in May 2019, she was the Minister of Small Business Development from 2014 to 2019.

Lindiwe Zulu entered politics during apartheid through the African National Congress (ANC) in exile and became known as the ANC Women’s League communications officer during the negotiations to end the war and end the ‘racist’ regime. From 1999 to 2014 she worked in foreign affairs as a civil servant and political consultant, including Ambassador of South Africa to Brazil from 2004 to 2009 and International Relations Advisor to President Jacob Zuma from 2009 to 2014.

She joined the National Assembly and Zuma’s cabinet for a second term after the 2014 general election, starting her ministerial career. She has been a member of the ANC’s National Executive Committee since 2007.

Lindiwe Zulu was born in Nhlazatshe in the former Eastern Transvaal. After the villagers were forced to move to Madadeni in KwaZulu, her family moved to Swaziland. After the 1976 Soweto uprising, a large number of young South African political activists crossed the border into neighboring Swaziland and the Zulu took part in the African National Congress (ANC); Her brother participated in the Pan-Africanist Congress.

Shortly after joining the ANC, she left Swaziland for Mozambique and then Tanzania, where she attended Solomon Mahlangu Liberal College. A year after starting to study there, she received a scholarship to study journalism in Moscow. After seven years, she obtained a master’s degree from Patrice Lumumba University, by which time she was already fluent in Russian.

She returned to Tanzania, where she contributed to the ANC’s internal newsletters until 1987 when she was sent to Angola for military training. She served as a communications officer for Pan-African Women in Angola in 1988, and in 1989 moved to Lusaka, Zambia to be in charge of communications for the ANC’s religious department. Her last position, which began in 1990, was administrator and head of communications at the ANC office in Uganda.

In 1991, during negotiations to end the apartheid regime, Lindiwe Zulu returned to South Africa and became a communications officer for the newly revived ANC Women’s League. She was elected to the federation’s National Executive Committee in 1993. Also in 1993, she was seconded to the information and publicity department of the mainstream ANC to serve as the party’s spokesperson before the first election after the apartheid regime in 1994.

In the 1994 election, Lindiwe Zulu was elected to an ANC seat in the Gauteng Provincial Legislative Council. The following year, she was appointed Vice-President of the Legislative Assembly of Gauteng Province, replacing Trevor Fowler. Meanwhile, in February 1995, she was a prominent member of a group of ANC Women’s League leaders who resigned in protest at Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s leadership of the federation.

From 1999 to 2001, Lindiwe Zulu was a special adviser to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. Then, from 2001 to 2003, she worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director of the West and Central Africa Department. She is said to remain close to Minister Dlamini-Zuma and is even the minister’s preferred candidate for promotion to director general of the department. In 2003, Lindiwe Zulu took a brief hiatus from politics to become the chief executive officer at Vodacom, responsible for government and international relations.

She was only in the private sector until 2004 when President Thabo Mbeki appointed her the South African Ambassador to Brazil. She was sent to Brazil for over four years, returning in early 2009, and the Brazilian government later awarded her the Rio Branco Medal for her contributions to relations between Brazil and South Africa. While in Brazil, at the ANC’s 52nd National Convention in December 2007, Lindiwe Zulu was first elected to a five-year term as a member of the ANC’s National Executive Committee (NEC) endorsed by the South African Trades Union Congress.

In the 2009 general election, Lindiwe Zulu was elected to an ANC seat in Congress. However, she only served for two months before resigning on 6 July 2009; her chair is held by Doris Ngcengwane. Instead, she worked as an international relations adviser to newly elected President Jacob Zuma. She was also appointed as one of Zuma’s three emissaries to Zimbabwe, tasked with helping implement the 2008 Zimbabwe peace accord along with Charles Nqakula and Mac Maharaj. In 2013, Zulu made public comments about Zimbabwe’s upcoming elections, prompting Robert Mugabe to call her “a stupid street woman”.

During this time, at the ANC’s 53rd National Convention in December 2012, Lindiwe Zulu was re-elected to the ANC NEC. She was also elected to the ANC National Working Committee and Chair of the NEC’s Communications and Media Subcommittee. She remained on the subcommittee until the end of 2015, when she reassigned Jackson Mthembu to chair the drafting subcommittee instead. The Mail & Guardian called her Zuma’s “most trusted lieutenant”.

Lindiwe Zulu returned to Parliament in the 2014 general election, and she was appointed to Zuma’s cabinet as Minister of Small Business Development, a newly created portfolio. During the controversy surrounding Zuma’s second term, Zulu became known as one of Zuma’s “fierce defenders”.

At the ANC’s 54th National Convention, convened in December 2017 to elect a new president, Lindiwe Zulu endorsed Zuma’s preferred successor, his former boss Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma; she said it was important to support female candidates to ensure gender equality in party leadership. Dlamini-Zuma was defeated by Zuma’s outgoing deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa. However, Zulu herself was re-elected to the NEC at the same convention: according to the number of votes received, she is the second favorite candidate, after Zweli Mkhize. Although she was not re-elected to the National Affairs Committee, she was elected chair of the NEC’s international relations subcommittee.

In 2018, the Public Defender, Busisiwe Mkhwebane, investigated Lindiwe Zulu after Toby Chance of the Democratic Coalition alleges that she engaged in misconduct by lying to Congress. Specifically, in November 2017, Zulu told Congress she was driving a Lexus worth R580,000, which Chance considers an overstatement. Mkhwebane found Zulu’s claims to be inaccurate; her department spent Rs 1.8 million on two ministerial BMWs – but cleared her of any wrongdoing.

Following the 2019 general election, President Ramaphosa appointed Lindiwe Zulu as Minister of Social Development, with Hendrietta Bogopane-Zulu as deputy. In December 2022, at the ANC’s 55th National Convention, Zulu was re-elected to the ANC NEC; she is ranked 26th in popularity.

Lindiwe Zulu is married to Kgosietsile Itholeng, a South African she met at the ANC in Angola. They have a son together. Zulu also has three grown children: two daughters, born in South Africa and raised there while Zulu was in exile, and another son, fathered by a Guyanese student in Moscow. She is an amateur distance runner.

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Yes, Lindiwe Zulu is known to have a brother.

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