Jenny SCHREINER

Member of Parliament - ANC
Member of ANC Wynberg Branch
Member of SACP Central Committee
Member of SACP National Gender Dept

Parliamentary Committees
Safety and Security Portfolio Committee
Chair - Sub Theme Committee 6.4 of Constitutional Assembly dealing with Security Apparatuses
Active in Safety and Security, Defence and Intelligence Study Groups

Parliamentary address
P.O.Box 15
Cape Town 8000

Constituency Office
P.O.Box
Saldanha

Tel (Parliament): (021) 403 2542
Page: (021) 4184616, Code: NAT 920
Tel (Constituency office): (02281) 41934
Fax (Parliament): (021) 403 2070
Fax (Phone first to activate): (021) 797 8885
Fax (Constituency Office): (02281) 41913
E-Mail address: jschreiner@anc.org.za

Educational background

• B.A.Hons (African Studies) UCT
  
• MA (Sociology) UCT
  
• Currently in process of registering for PhD.

Employment background

• Part-time Archivist UCT
  
• Part-time tutor and lecturer UCT in Industrial Sociology
  
• Political Education Officer for SACP Western Cape
  
• Researcher, ANC President's Office
  
• Elections Briefing Unit in ANC Dept of Information and Publicity
  
• Member of Parliament - Government of National Unity

Political Background

• NUSAS, SRC and Wages Commission
  
• Active in ANC, SACP and MK undergound
  
• Active in United Womens' Organisation/Congress and in UDF
  
• Detention for six months from Sept 1987 and on trial for Terrorism from March 1988 till indemnified in March 1991
  
• Served on W Cape Regional Interim Leadership Group of SACP on release from prison
  
• Elected onto W Cape SACP REC 1991
  
• Elected onto SACP Central Committee at 8th Congress December 1991 and re-elected April 1995.

Date of birth: 30 October 1956

Family Details

• Daughter of Deneys Schreiner (retired Professor of Chemistry and Vice Principal of UNP) and Else Schreiner (leader in women's organisations)
  
• Sister of Deneys Schreiner (civil engineer) and Barbara Schreiner (Environmentalist and activist)
  
• Partner of Anthony Stevens (musician) and mother of Nikita Stevens (just being a 3 year old boy at this stage of his life!)

Updated: 30 May 1995